A single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : forlorn glances. ,forlorn of comfort. From Dictionary.com.
"I don't know what they want," she said forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
The boy shook his head forlornly, as he explained. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
"Are you angry with me, Phil?" she asked forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Mrs. Caldwell rocked herself on her chair forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Again the distant sound came forlornly to their ears. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Ev'leen Ann looked at me forlornly, with no surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
"Please don't bother about me," said Roberta forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
"I don't know where to begin," complained Sarah forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
He rebaited and dropped his line forlornly into the water. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
"Atop the fish, a single sprig of chervil waves forlornly.". From Wordnik.com. [How Many ...S For Tasty Writing] Reference
Latin race survived, forlornly conscious of its vanished culture. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
Bobbie slipped out of the stretcher and Tim turned away forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference
Was prayer, she wondered forlornly, to fail her like everything else?. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
We huddle forlornly on some thin white towels I borrowed from our chalet. From Wordnik.com. [A new mum again ... at 48!] Reference
Peggy looked at the furniture, standing forlornly about in strange places. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference
"I know," said Isabel forlornly, "but that would have happened in any case.". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
“Already did,” he said, and gazed forlornly at a point above my shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [May the Road Rise Up to Meet You] Reference
"I shall have stage-fright and spoil everything," declared Roberta forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
"Ah!" said he, and for a full minute sat staring before him rather forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
There they were, looking forlornly at the space that used to house their goods. From Wordnik.com. [Modern design and an empty storefront] Reference
The taxicab slid away and Nan stood once more forlornly watching the stream go by. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
"It didn't stop him staring forlornly at his empty bowl when I got him home though.". From Wordnik.com. [Pub chain puts free dogs' dinners on the menu] Reference
She stood in the center of the group a little forlornly while they awaited her word. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
Sometimes I lounge forlornly to the window and try to take a bird's-eye view of outdoors. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
"Then we dassent to go, the while we ain't none of us got no sickness," cried Eva forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The little boat rocked forlornly on the waves, once more deserted by her friends and owners. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
It was an overcast morning, and the air was damp with a cold, wet wind that blew in forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
Mr. Figgs looked forlornly about him, and, being a fat man, seemed to grow somewhat apoplectic. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
She clung to him forlornly, so tired and hopeless she no longer felt any impulse to resist him. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Winnie met me at Waterloo, or rather I met her, gazing forlornly at streams of strange soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from France] Reference
But so long as the volume lay there forlornly, so long he remembered, and had something to regret. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
"I think," she said forlornly, "it -- it's just because everything has turned out so -- so nicely.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
The Mole subsided forlornly on a tree stump and tried to control himself, for he felt it surely coming. From Wordnik.com. ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference
Pudgy and pale-skinned, Fahima sits forlornly in a damp, concrete-walled cell in the Kabul Women's Prison. From Wordnik.com. [Now, The Hard Part] Reference
The half-timbered youth hostel had long since vanished behind the trees as I gazed forlornly back in its direction. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Lake District] Reference
As he was wandering forlornly around the barnyard, wondering what he could do, he heard a shout over by the Miller farm. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
His handlers were nervous: one of his advisers forlornly predicted that if the president blew this one, the election was lost. From Wordnik.com. [TALKING THE TALK] Reference
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