How to Use forgetful in a Sentence

forgetful

adjective

• He became forgetful in his old age.
• The Voice fans are a lot of things, but forgetful is not one of them.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 26 Feb. 2019
• To give 'em pumpkin to talk about Why was the jack-o'-lantern so forgetful?
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 6 July 2023
• Lost-item trackers, the high-tech savior of the forgetful, aren’t new.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• That slow, forgetful server who made your blood boil could have just had the worst day of his or her life.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2019
• Children can be forgetful and finicky, with likes and dislikes that seem to change on a whim.
  — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2020
• In Hong Kong people are not lucky enough to be forgetful.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 July 2019
• So, Marlin teams up with a forgetful new friend (Ellen DeGeneres) to bring his son home.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
• Weekend woes: In the United states, the most forgetful days of the week were Saturday and Sunday.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Some are now widows, some no longer drive and some are getting forgetful.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• Gilbert, now 76, is rheumy eyed and slightly forgetful.
  — The Economist, 15 Nov. 2019
• For those forgetful of the particulars of the Pell case, permit me to briefly recap.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• Then, last year, the woman began to feel forgetful and depressed.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• The star of Netflix’s latest sci-fi series isn’t a forgetful robot or even a pesky kid.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2018
• In other words, even the most forgetful person can safely tote it home.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
• A lot of establishing is done in the first quarter of the book that feels tedious and sometimes forgetful.
  — Delfina V Barbiero, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
• After a while, the Tooth Fairy got forgetful and a little resentful at our house.
  — Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 5 Feb. 2012
• Their mother, delayed or forgetful, failed to pick them up from school one day, so Stringfield came to the rescue.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• And for the forgetful guest, the park sells face masks alongside all those other souvenirs — branded with its logo, of course.
  — Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 21 June 2020
• But sometimes, most of us are too busy (or just plain forgetful) to head out each week and purchase a fresh bouquet to display in our homes.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 2 July 2019
• Your son is not trying to be lazy or forgetful; he is simply finished with that work and moving on.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
• A year ago at a Nike retreat in Santa Barbara, Olson was in a wheelchair and a bit forgetful.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• For those who feel the same way—always busy, or maybe just a little forgetful—we've come up with a list of the best indoor plants that'll take the work out of plant parenting.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
• Jacksonville, Florida, took the top spot for being the most forgetful city.
  — Emmy Abbassi, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
• People loosened up, and told a few of their own stories, and got slowly pickled and forgetful.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• However, the waitress proved to be slightly forgetful as well, and did not have a pen for the Emmy-award winning actor to use.
  — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 18 July 2018
• Was some forgetful prince supposed to drop by, give him the reviving kiss, and start the soap opera up again, absent forced estrogen?
  — Michael L. Johnson, Scientific American, 27 May 2021
• The most forgetful days are Saturday and Sunday, and the most forgetful time is early evening, Uber said.
  — Emmy Abbassi, CNN, 11 June 2022
• The forgetful part of her personality is always fun to watch and still funny to this day.
  — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
• Yet despite that forgetful reputation, scientists have known for decades that such claims don't hold up to scrutiny.
  — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024