How To Use Forlornly In A Sentence
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There are books whose very titles induce guilt, since they're still lingering forlornly in the pile beside my bed.
Mikita Brottman: Book Buying: A Record of Your Year
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You think of all the nasty things that might have happened, especially so as he didn't even come back to gulp down the full glass of his favourite tipple which then stands forlornly on the table where he left it.
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Abandoned picnic areas stand forlornly beside the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been.
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Tangled and corroded metal, red with age rather than by design protruded from the rock walls, and slick metal wallowed forlornly in the water, having finally succumbed to gravity's relentless pull.
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She seemed, of a sudden, as she leaned heavily on his arm, a presaging apparition out of the dim future, an adumbration of her own body grown frail and old, looking up to him for help, calling forlornly to him for solace.
Phantom Wires A Novel
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I looked forlornly at my lunch: a tomato and cress sandwich.
Times, Sunday Times
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In one of the book's most moving passages, Power describes Lemkin forlornly stalking the passages of the UN, dishevelled and faint from hunger, buttonholing any delegates or journalists who would listen.
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These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets.
Cri de coeur
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At the corner, the charcoal husk of a car smoldered forlornly, resting on its rims like a tired cow.
Day of Honey
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The latter forlornly takes centre stage while the latter prompts his lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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It sat forlornly in the middle of an arid coastal basin, lacking both a port and a railroad.
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As a technologically illiterate parent, I could only wave forlornly from the other side of the widening technological divide.
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It shows the ship lying forlornly on her starboard side, almost completely capsized.
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She stared so boldly and so forlornly and so desperately that her heart could have done her talking for her.
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The trouble with these Euro huddles is that when the EuroFederalists eventually isolate the UK from the rest, like a pack of hyenas, they end up forlornly trying to defend their position like a lion tries to defend its kill.
Archive 2007-06-17
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At times he will eat nothing but the fish (heavily dosed with lemon juice), and at other times the fish is left to sit forlornly on the plate, while he consumes every French fry within reach (including mine).
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These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets.
Cri de coeur
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But in my self-service, I have done you a disservice, he said forlornly.
Exit the Actress
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He just minds his own business and looks forlornly at the petrol pumps.
Times, Sunday Times
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An ice axe lay forlornly on the snow below rock buttresses high on Harrison Stickle, the most dominant of the Langdale Pikes.
Country diary: Great Langdale, Lake District
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She had lost the final point of that service game in disarray, falling over in mid-rally and desperately, but forlornly, flailing at the ball to try to get it back.
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The characters of these poems forlornly look for redemption in a decadent society on the edge of collapse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sharp ears were not pricked so sharply as he had seen them on other wolves; the eyes were bleared and bloodshot, the head seemed to droop limply and forlornly.
LOVE OF LIFE
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A Dutch newspaper photographed the president waiting forlornly in the rain.
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I toddled drowsily into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and feeling a whole lot better, to find Dolly sitting at the closed door, gazing forlornly out.
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I pause, watching as she gazes forlornly out the window.
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It shows the ship lying forlornly on her starboard side, almost completely capsized.
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To those who had watched forlornly as his political hopes ground to a halt in 1989, 1994 and 1998, it seemed he was tempting fate.
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All he could do was stand in the rubble of his precious memories, and forlornly point out random spots now cluttered with cranes and building supplies.
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a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard
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I looked forlornly past the celebratory bottle of champagne, consoling myself that it could be saved for New Years, and selected a bottle of Barbados dark rum from my disturbingly overstocked bar.
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The few city centre shopkeepers that had bothered to open waited forlornly for customers.
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Who would be willing to admit that monitoring screens often flickered forlornly to the soft echoes of slumber or sat in closets unwatched and untended or, even worse, were silent since they weren't even working at all?
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Both ads use the same stock video of Cofield walking forlornly alongside her shuttered brake-pad production facility.
Strickland goes negative in first campaign ad
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By the time Sara had made her delivery - in a rainstorm - tattered Mylar hung forlornly from a warped and woebegone frame.
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Our cousins across the line, with their population of one hundred million, are still forlornly looking for the great American novel, and remembering the age and character of this Dominion I very much doubt if you will ever have the great Canathan novel, for the author of any such master-piece would have to have the geographical restlessness of a Casey Jones and the lyric fervour of an Archibald Lampman and the diligence of an Arnold Bennett and the humour of a Cervantes and the realism of a Zola and the fantasticism. of a Wilson MacDonald and the scholarship of a Charles G.
The Interpreters of Canada
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A little later, queuing forlornly towards U.S. customs and immigration, a tall, middle-aged man — Canadian passport, je regrette — passed the time by clipping his fingernails.
O tempora, O mores
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Their tombstones leaned forlornly over nothingness, like an existentialist 's ultimate metaphor: Sartre would have loved it.
NO BODY
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But I have been gazing forlornly at my unoccupied bird bath since I was given it for Christmas.
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He just minds his own business and looks forlornly at the petrol pumps.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could not get over the suddenness of it, and watched them forlornly, gazing enviously at their conferences over the medicine chest, once straightening himself from his search for stones to call longingly:
The Emigrant Trail
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These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets.
Cri de coeur
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On the steps I stood still and looked round: long storm-clouds were creeping heavily over the grey sky; a dark-brown bush was writhing in the wind, and murmuring plaintively; the yellow grass helplessly and forlornly bowed down to the earth; flocks of thrushes were fluttering in the mountain-ashes among the bright, flame-coloured clusters of berries.
The Jew and other stories
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Orleans, despatched their billets by the forlornly precarious post only when they could not send them by the "urbanity" of such or such a one!
Kincaid's Battery
