Forlorn Sentence Examples

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  • His face looked forlorn.

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  • He pressed his face against the window and managed a forlorn goodbye wave.

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  • She followed his gaze, taking in the bare glossy walls and impressive fireplace with one forlorn glance.

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  • He smiled in a forlorn way.

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  • No more striking contrast can be found between forlorn conditions and refined art products.

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  • She looked so forlorn, so empty like the hope had been sucked out of her.

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  • The roof on the old house had been replaced, but the house stood empty and forlorn.

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  • Once he became a candidate for governor, in 1876, but his candidature was a forlorn hope, undertaken from a sense of duty after the regular nominee had withdrawn.

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  • She snuggled deeper into his arms, her voice forlorn.

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  • What do you think when you're feeling forlorn?

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  • She cast a forlorn look at the beckoning hills and reluctantly turned toward his house.

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  • Now the trees stand forlorn in the gathering gloom.

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  • However the people do not seem as forlorn as some of their property.

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  • Here and there, a tree fern, the forlorn remnant of cloud forest, punctuates the scenery.

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  • Hanging baskets try in vain to hide the rather forlorn look of the station.

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  • So Livy and Clara (Spaulding) sat down forlorn, and cried, and I retired to a private, place to pray.

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  • For these have need of such comforts more than the knights, being in sooth weary meager wights and forlorn.

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  • An autumnal breeze, an early harbinger of winter, skittered high and forlorn among the loblolly pines.

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  • Beside, the likes of grilled chicken marinated in Moroccan spices or forlorn looking king prawns weren't exactly writhing with flavor.

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  • The catwalks have gone from City and Essex looked very forlorn without the landing stage.

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  • Meanwhile a fleet was raised for their relief by Carlo Zeno in the Levant, and the admiral Vittore Pisani, who had been imprisoned after the defeat at Pola, was released to lead their forlorn hope from the city side.

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  • I, the forlorn Teresa, how shall I refuse or accept such protestations?

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  • The main site has now been almost entirely cleared leaving just the boarded up Station Headquarters, looking rather forlorn.

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  • Sadly this all finished again during 1998 and the two grain barges now lie forlorn at their berth at Tewkesbury.

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  • At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been all but solved by Speke, Baker and Burton, but the idea grew upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the "fountains" of Herodotus.

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  • But the whole expedition was a forlorn hope.

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  • Her soft, forlorn words sounded like a farewell.  "This is killing me," he muttered.  He strode to her, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her.  She yielded more easily in the dream than she ever had in real life.  Her soft, warm lips welcomed him hungrily, and he lost himself in her sweet musk, warm skin and honeyed taste.  He didn't want to leave; he wanted to spend the rest of his life making love to her on the beach.  He wanted to feel his skin pressed against hers and for her to run her fingers through his hair before scraping her nails down his back.  He wanted to take her every way he could imagine, until they lay spent and panting on the beach, until nothing but their entwined bodies and souls remained of their world.

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  • After the defeat of Charles Albert's forlorn hope at Novara in March the Venetian assembly voted "Resistance at all costs!"

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  • The disorders in Naples and Sicily in 1837 had no connection with Mazzini, but the forlorn hope of the brothers Bandiera, who in 1844 landed on the Calabrian coast, was the work of the Giovane Italia.

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