Synonym: abandoned, defenseless, deserted, desperate, despondent, forsaken, helpless, hopeless, miserable. Similar words: overlook, purloined, world, for life, for lack of, in the world, worldwide, more or less. Meaning: [fə(r)'lɔrn /-lɔːn] adj. marked by or showing hopelessness.
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(31) It was a forlorn sight to see that troupe passing through our lines at such a time.
(32) She'd sounded rather forlorn, she realised, and she silently cursed her frankness.
(33) He began a forlorn final game by losing his grip on the racket altogether.
(34) These forlorn survivors seem badly suited to a world which has gone on without them.
(35) In the centre of the buildings was a square parade ground with a forlorn flagpole.
(36) Forlorn figures with their boots under their arms wondering how to tell their family and friends their news of rejection.
(37) From a place on the shady side I watched the most forlorn spectacle I have ever seen.
(38) Offers of help or sponsorship would give new life to a very forlorn Lancaster - contact Bernie via the FlyPast office.
(39) The deserted nest, neat as a pin,(http://sentencedict.com/forlorn.html) had a forlorn accusing air.
(40) The city was rife with forlorn single women, and there was plenty of blame to go around.
(41) But these outcasts of the consumer boom have learned to make even a forlorn hope go a long way.
(42) Past the piano was a stairway leading to nowhere, and then a four-poster bed, forlorn but inviting.
(43) I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors; sleep is impossible.
(44) Dougal was chasing a forlorn hope; and he wasn't even sure that he was going by the best route.
(45) Defying gravity, wrecked buildings leaned drunkenly over the forlorn rubble-filled streets.
(46) They looked empty and forlorn as if they had not yet adjusted themselves to their premature change of life.
(47) Even they realise, however, that the real world makes that an increasingly forlorn hope.
(48) He sits forlorn on horse-munched hay while his thoughts run on distant, fabled gold.
(49) In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.
(50) We pass a council estate and a forlorn shop which seems to have been carved into the ground level of the estate.
(51) The snooker table stood, dark and forlorn, in the centre of the room.
(52) This is a grimy, forlorn industrial town.
(53) Unfortunately, that looks a forlorn hope.
(54) Privately, both of us nursed a forlorn hope.
(55) The AU mission to Somalia looks even more forlorn.
(56) Revenue sharing seems a forlorn hope.
(57) That is already a forlorn hope.
(58) Like a cock's sudden crow in the night, It'struck him as forlorn yet comforting.
(59) One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
(60) Unmoving he made a forlorn statue on the cliff from sunrise to sunset.
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