How to Use forlorn in a Sentence

forlorn

adjective
  • What industry is, or, in the case of the forlorn town, was, the big deal here?
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The world is dark and wild looking, as bleak and forlorn as any Souls game.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • On a gray day in March, Rex Brasher’s place looks a bit forlorn.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The big event might be over in Old Blighty, but don’t feel forlorn, royal-lovers.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Now, of course the American plight is not a forlorn one.
    Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018
  • Modrić cut a forlorn figure on the bench and buried his face in his hands.
    Matias Grez, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • Sunday Most of the tents were blown down overnight, so the park looks forlorn as folks work to reset for the big day.
    Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
  • Not much turns up on this quick trip — a few small logs and a forlorn ice cream wrapper.
    Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 22 May 2017
  • The Saghatelyans no longer use this forlorn family heirloom, the girth of which exceeds the width of the door’s frame.
    Karine Vann, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
  • The Saghatelyans no longer use this forlorn family heirloom, the girth of which exceeds the width of the door’s frame.
    Karine Vann, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
  • And a forlorn little sign above the salad bar notes that Ford Field is 346 miles away.
    John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2018
  • Mbappé, Neymar and Messi, that strike force of the best there was, the best there is and the best there might yet be, prowled the field forlorn.
    New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
  • But for now the dim sum mainstay Yank Sing is the only thing open inside, and the mood is mighty forlorn.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
  • This forlorn look from Davis didn’t stop in the Lakers locker room.
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But on This Stupid World, the forlorn ambience is more lived-in and close-to-home than it’s ever seemed in the past.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The forlorn, Colonial Revival-style house sits on a 3,920-square-foot lot.
    oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2021
  • This was forlorn and, with the benefit of hindsight, now looks naïve.
    Tom Tugendhat, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The forlorn street, flanked by woods and a creek and devoid of any lights, had been repaved in the years since the little girl’s death, but not much else had changed.
    John H. Tucker, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • These days, the scene isn’t threatening so much as forlorn.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 June 2021
  • His forlorn face and unwieldy limbs clearly struck a chord with cat lovers.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
  • His brother Ray peered in from the back of the ambulance, head hung down, looking scared and forlorn.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
  • Alec, hands on hips at the shore staring forlorn toward the ocean, sullen that the water is off limits.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 July 2021
  • In that absence, its long, forlorn search for goals — the scruffy and the scrappy, the ugly and imperfect — will go on.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Negusti said, trembling and searching the forlorn faces of customers who had come in the morning to drink the day away.
    Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The butcher shop, which has been in a smallish building on Court Street since 1926, was in a forlorn spot not too long ago.
    Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2017
  • The sight of father and daughter made the woman who was eager to pack for a tour somewhat forlorn.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The sunbaked towns; the sparkling, forlorn sea; the wildness and humanity of the island.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The former is the kind of breakup song a forlorn heart could listen to on an endless loop until help in the form of hope arrives.
    azcentral, 25 Mar. 2018
  • And yet, the latter seems forlorn and shabby on the charger next to the matte darkness of this inky usurper.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 19 Sep. 2024
  • McVay had no update about the specifics of the injury, but Kupp exited the locker room with a forlorn grimace and a knee-high protective boot on his left foot and ankle.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024

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