forlorn

Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where ghosts are buried.

The roads are forlorn, the landscape barren, the forests menacing.

He could not shake the image of that forlorn, mistreated horse.

That process is indeed likely to be prolonged, and maybe forlorn for some time to come.

He looked as forlorn as might be expected of a retired cop who finds himself the one behind bars.

"I wasn't joking last night when I told Goodell that this was something of a forlorn hope," he said.

"The high and mighty sent me out to lead a forlorn hope," Mac dryly responded.

It ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.

The same old battalions being called on again and again to do the forlorn hope sort of business.

I was more than ready to take her place; you actually stirred my maternal instincts when you arrived, you looked so forlorn.