forlorn
Example Sentences
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On a gray day in March, Rex Brasher’s place looks a bit forlorn.
From Washington Post
“I feel so forlorn without you, though this has been a happy year,” Lowell wrote to Bishop in 1959.
From New York Times
Stubborn and forlorn about a legacy I couldn’t control, I learned to privilege the B-sides, both in the literal sense and in the narrative realm.
From Los Angeles Times
For a time, it embraced its dark side, eager to attract visitors and money to a forlorn and formerly forbidden zone so secret it did not appear on maps.
From New York Times
As the front line has shifted over the 14 months of war, it has left dozens — perhaps hundreds — of such places in its wake, forlorn scenes of empty streets, blown-up churches and countless ruined houses.
From New York Times
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