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Example sentences for: forlorn

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Since time immemorial this forlorn place has stirred the imagination.
In the southern part of Rome stands the rather forlorn EUR complex of obsolescent modern buildings.
That, as we all know, is a forlorn hope (to abuse a Dutch cliché): those who “know” that when two or more people or things are the subject of a verb you have to use were , not was , regardless of the context, are like those who “know” (like the people at Elizabeth Arden) that millennium is spelled with one n, who “know” that it is Parmagiana , not Parmigiana (like the people at Burger King), and who have no doubt that baking soda, baking powder, washing soda, and ice-cream soda are all the same thing.
It is a little careworn and forlorn today and may be worth visiting only for its view of the harbor.
A commentary in the London Independent about Britain's fuddy-duddy Conservative Party and its forlorn attempts at image enhancement observed, "Here they are, doing their best to be a little bit groovy , a little bit New Labour, and what do we do?