How to use "forlorn" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "forlorn" in popular movie and book plots

  • Victor looks on with a forlorn expression.  - The Orchid Gardener
  • The film opens with Caleb Sinclaire sitting in a diner, forlorn and smoking a cigarette.  - The Vicious Kind
  • A forlorn Keira then installs a Light Eco Beam in the Hellcat to finish the Behemoth off.  - Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
  • They stop at the house of his former girlfriend, Elvia (Betsy Blair), a forlorn seamstress who still loves him.  - Il Grido
  • A forlorn Rathi (Manmatha's lover) wanders for many years and eventually comes to Shambasura's kingdom and joins the kitchen as a maid.  - Mohanatarangini
  • He gives the forlorn plants to Wu Chow's Auntie, knowing that she has a "green thumb".  - The Hawaiians (film)
  • He collapses and dies, a forlorn figure of the past.  - Beloved Infidel
  • Nathan finally steps out of a building and walks toward Peter with a forlorn expression on his face.  - Fallout (Heroes)
  • Cleopatra, left alone and utterly forlorn discovers the bloodied body concealed behind a curtain.  - Caesar and Cleopatra (play)
  • Riker leaves as the episode ends with Picard looking forlorn at Ro's betrayal.  - Preemptive Strike (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • Melman, forlorn and believing he is dying, volunteers to be sacrificed.  - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  • Yet, though the Shepherd leaves in a moment, He returns the same way at the first furtive cry of the forlorn little protagonist.  - Hinds' Feet on High Places
  • Lying forlorn in a doorway, the dog awaits his end awash in self-pity.  - Heart of a Dog
  • The victims of Earth’s misfortune have been forced to subsist on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states.  - Phantom 2040
  • Meanwhile, he cares for all the Clearys and soon learns to cherish beautiful but forlorn little Meggie.  - The Thorn Birds
  • Craig Schwartz (Cusack) is an unemployed puppeteer in a forlorn marriage with his pet-obsessed wife Lotte (Diaz).  - Being John Malkovich

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