How to Use lovelorn in a Sentence

lovelorn

adjective

• The aching, lovelorn guitar riff that floats over the tale, Kennedy said, was composed on the spot in the studio.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• What's a lovelorn witch to do but help a handsome prince break the curse plaguing his life?
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• No matter who sings the lovelorn ballad, it's bound to leave few dry eyes.
  — Abby Jones, Billboard, 13 June 2018
• The moody, lovelorn track tells the story of a one-night stand over a breakneck Jersey-club beat.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2023
• LEGO Joker wrecks the world as a lovelorn statement to his jilted nemesis.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• The album rises and crashes with Syd’s emotions; its lilting, lovelorn alt-blues trace the arc of a tryst gone sour.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
• Last year, researchers made Romeo a Match.com profile in an effort to draw attention to their search for a mate for the lovelorn frog.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2019
• In their new film, which is backed by Apple, Evans plays a lovelorn man who has the best date of his life with de Armas’ character.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
• And as Buddy’s adored grandfather, Ciarán Hinds might have been a salt-of-the-Earth cliché—yet his lovelorn-hound eyes keep the movie grounded.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2021
• As a bonus for Gabay, his 21-year-old son, Adam, is making his stage debut in the tour, cast as a lovelorn Israeli kid named Papi.
  — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
• At its heart is a lovelorn teen boy looking for a real connection.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The band's signature sound includes blaring horns and lovelorn lyrics.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2019
• Guests report sightings of a lovelorn ghost-girl, Anna, haunting the upstairs rooms.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• An adult is the proverbial total package—the person who can be everything a lovelorn woman wants and needs.
  — Roxane Gay, Marie Claire, 7 June 2017
• An adult is the proverbial total package—the person who can be everything a lovelorn woman wants and needs.
  — Roxane Gay, Marie Claire, 7 June 2017
• There’s real possibility in the back-and-forth with her lovelorn producer Ragnarok, and Musk looks the part, but the lines fall flat.
  — Matthew Love, Vulture, 9 May 2021
• A few days later, on the fifth, lovelorn Venus swims into tender Pisces and heightens our romantic hearts.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• On this and every other night, the Atmosphere set sounds like the private agonies of a lovelorn coed.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• For the past nine years, Romeo has been emitting plaintive mating calls, but scientists fear that there are no mates left for the lovelorn amphibian.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018
• Like a lovelorn high school senior making a point of talking to his new girlfriend in front of an ex who’d dumped him, Trump looked to be projecting strength and steadiness.
  — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 11 July 2017
• If Orange Was a Place, Tems’ lovelorn ballads and reflective records have steadily brought fans together over the last two years.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 19 July 2022
• Sticky melodies and lovelorn lyrics, however, are what really bind all the steel guitars and rave synths together.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• The key to the show, which is also the key to ABBA’s music, is to be buoyant and cheery and funny without showing how intricate the harmonies or how deep the lovelorn themes can be.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 June 2019
• Winslet and Diaz plays two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic who swap homes during the Christmas season.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• If that résumé, and Monday’s premiere, are any indicators, the 27th season of the Bachelor promises to be the dullest in all its lovelorn years.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
• Khalid, for all his lovelorn protestations, fully trusts the power of his imploring voice, which warms even his most brittle tracks.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2019
• De Vault says, referring to the lovelorn Barbara Hutton, who had seven husbands.
  — Peter Lawrence Kane, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• The first source of Durkee’s infatuation is a portrait miniature of a lovelorn courtier by the Elizabethan painter Nicholas Hilliard.
  — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• The song’s a slap back after having been lied to, continuing the album’s overall lovelorn message.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 31 May 2017
• Woolf’s novel follows Orlando, an angsty, lovelorn young man born during the reign of Elizabeth I.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024