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63 example sentences for FORLORN, such as:

1. But it looked forlorn and unkempt under the gray sky.
2. She looked a forlorn figure standing at the bus stop.
3. It was empty and he looked at it in forlorn bewilderment.
4. But lying weak and forlorn in the bed, she could only nod.
5. Altogether, the appearance of the individual was forlorn and miserable.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORLORN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
forlorn
 a.  sad and lonely; wretched; abandoned or left behind
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Indignation at being misunderstood mingled with Scarlett's forlorn feeling of being out of everything and strangled all utterance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  It was empty and he looked at it in forlorn bewilderment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  "Mother, you've still got me," said Phil, in a forlorn effort at comforting the white-faced woman beside him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  But lying weak and forlorn in the bed, she could only nod.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  They passed the lot where the Meade house had stood and there remained of it only a forlorn pair of stone steps and a walk, leading up to nothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  But it looked forlorn and unkempt under the gray sky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  He came to her, his black face as forlorn as a lost and masterless hound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  She had not been forlorn and frightened then, as she was now, weak and pain racked and bewildered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
9  But that forlorn whisper brought instant response from somewhere in the darkness beside the bed and the soft voice of the one she called made answer in lullaby tones: "I'm here, dear."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
10  Monstrous tattered clouds sprawled round a forlorn moon; puddles and rocks glistened with inner light.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  He was used to the sight of human wrecks, this saloon-keeper; he "fired" dozens of them every night, just as haggard and cold and forlorn as this one.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  Altogether, the appearance of the individual was forlorn and miserable.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
13  But he saw that it was good, else, he said, in battle every one would surely run save forlorn hopes and their ilk.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  The haste of the column to reach the battle seemed to the forlorn young man to be something much finer than stout fighting.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  The youth sat in a forlorn heap until his friend the loud young soldier came, swinging two canteens by their light strings.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  Deserted by her big sisters and her friends, the forlorn child sat sadly on the steps awaiting their return.
2  Miss Ingram rose solemnly: "I go first," she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of his men.
3  She looked a forlorn figure standing at the bus stop.