[
UK
/fˈɔːlɔːnli/
]
ADVERB
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in a forlorn manner
a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard
How To Use forlornly In A Sentence
- Both ads use the same stock video of Cofield walking forlornly alongside her shuttered brake-pad production facility. Strickland goes negative in first campaign ad
- A Dutch newspaper photographed the president waiting forlornly in the rain.
- I toddled drowsily into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and feeling a whole lot better, to find Dolly sitting at the closed door, gazing forlornly out.
- I pause, watching as she gazes forlornly out the window.
- It shows the ship lying forlornly on her starboard side, almost completely capsized.
- To those who had watched forlornly as his political hopes ground to a halt in 1989, 1994 and 1998, it seemed he was tempting fate.
- All he could do was stand in the rubble of his precious memories, and forlornly point out random spots now cluttered with cranes and building supplies.
- a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard
- I looked forlornly past the celebratory bottle of champagne, consoling myself that it could be saved for New Years, and selected a bottle of Barbados dark rum from my disturbingly overstocked bar.
- The few city centre shopkeepers that had bothered to open waited forlornly for customers.