How to Use forlorn in a Sentence

forlorn

adjective

• 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
• Being a continuous outsider is just so forlorn and tiring.
  — Mike Sacks, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2017
• What Paul and Trump got for their trouble is an unloved, forlorn bill in the House that neither repeals the law nor replaces it.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 30 June 2017
• Even Cave’s voice, previously an implement of menace, takes on a forlorn and inviting tone.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
• Forlorn salarymen donned their usual dark suits and loitered in parks, too humiliated to tell their families they’d been laid off.
  — Michael Schuman, Bloomberg.com, 29 June 2017
• Michelle Pfeiffer brings prickly poignancy to her role as Ruth Madoff, Bernie’s forlorn wife.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 May 2017
• 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
• Lisa Mielnicki's Sonia captures the forlorn outlook of a child who has been on the periphery of attention all her life.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 June 2017
• A hoop earring found 13 years ago by utility workers in what was once a forlorn road of Platte County told only part of the horrific tale.
  — Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 16 July 2017
• Instead, the actor cuts a forlorn figure, showing up at the occasional party or art gallery in L.A. with his son, James Haven.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 July 2024
• The Italian looked forlorn at the final whistle at Wembley Stadium, walking out onto the pitch with his hands in his pockets and looking down at the grass.
  — Ap, USA TODAY, 27 May 2017
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024