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
  • 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
  • Hur concluded a jury would find Biden a well-meaning old man who was forgetful.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Flower is the 1960s-era hippie who died trying to hug a bear while high on acid, and remained a bit forgetful and drugged-out while living in the purgatory that is Woodstone Mansion.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024

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