forlorn

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Hanging baskets try in vain to hide the rather forlorn look of the station.
• little: General Condition: Although the station has seen a repaint in recent years, it is still looking a little forlorn.
• so: She looked so forlorn, so empty like the hope had been sucked out of her.
• very: The catwalks have gone from City and Essex looked very forlorn without the landing stage.
• increasingly: He repeats his increasingly forlorn call for Labor lefts to follow his example: resign from Blair's party and join the SLP.
• all: Tinsel, trimmings, house adorn, Baby Jesus all forlorn.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• look: DONâT MISS: The royal barge â itâs floating in the visitor center THE wombat with the tartan eye patch looks a bit forlorn.

Modifies a noun

• hope: You will really gamble on a forlorn hope to the tune of sixteen francs?
• figure: A forlorn figure hanging upon a tree, forsaken by all.
• attempt: In that forlorn attempt to restore the Crown, the future Charles II was defeated by Cromwell himself.
• condition: The effect of their forlorn condition was very different on each.
• state: Woe be to them that think any thing but grace can save them: they are in a forlorn state indeed!
• chase: But the pace of ICT change does not make the business of resource review and recommendations just a forlorn chase after moving targets.

Used with adjective complement

• stand: Now the trees stand forlorn in the gathering gloom.
• look: The main site has now been almost entirely cleared leaving just the boarded up Station Headquarters, looking rather forlorn.
• seem: However the people do not seem as forlorn as some of their property.
• lie: Sadly this all finished again during 1998 and the two grain barges now lie forlorn at their berth at Tewkesbury.
• sit: So Livy and Clara ( Spaulding ) sat down forlorn, and cried, and I retired to a private, place to pray.
• feel: What do you think when you're feeling forlorn?