Sample Sentences for
forlorn
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    And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn.  (source)
    forlorn = pitiful
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    The girls followed him as gallant soldiers might follow the leader of a forlorn hope.  (source)
    forlorn = doomed to fail (hopeless)
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    "What could you possibly say to him?" Major Major wondered forlornly.  (source)
    forlornly = without hope
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    Al gives me a forlorn look, and I smile back in what I hope is a reassuring way.†  (source)
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    We've been told of children searching forlornly in the smoldering ruins for their dead parents.†  (source)
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    To escape the forlornness and the squalor I sought Michael's company.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It reminded her of an unpopular child, forlorn and bewildered, powerless to alter its fate.†  (source)
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    He looked forlornly at the blue folder that contained his cheerful speech praising a perfect launch.†  (source)
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    Newman only half understood it, but it amused him, and the old man's decent forlornness appealed to his democratic instincts.†  (source)
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    At about three in the morning, Louie woke to a forlorn droning, rising and falling.†  (source)
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    Perched on a stool and hunched over his plate, he sat forlornly and looked through the crowd.†  (source)
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    It never occurred to Newman to ask him for a guarantee of his skill in imparting instruction; he supposed of course M. Nioche knew his own language, and his appealing forlornness was quite the perfection of what the American, for vague reasons, had always associated with all elderly foreigners of the lesson-giving class.†  (source)
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    Next he turned his withering gaze upon the forlorn foreman.†  (source)
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