Then she descended to her husband, whom she found forlornly consoling himself with a cigar.
The old ghosts which he had thought well laid were walking, rattling their dry bones forlornly in his ears.
A door and a window faced the creek, a window of tiny panes, a door that stood partly open, saggingforlornly upon its hinges.
He had on a straight-brimmed straw hat which in the various shifts of the long water route and many camps had suffered disaster, so that a part of the brim drooped forlornly over his left ear.
Teddy's head fell back again in apathetic indifference, and he listened forlornly to a dispute between two men who had been playing dominoes.
He stood forlornly in the middle of the empty room, listening to the sound of the key turning in the lock, listening to the sound of his aunt's retreating footsteps.
Harry stood at the top of the dull street looking forlornly about him, when he came to that conclusion, and when he realised it, he burst into a sudden fit of heart-broken crying.
Yet it was only by a second or even a third glance that the more inquisitive might have detected anything arresting in that forlornly ruminative figure with the pendulous and withered throat and cheek-flaps.
So he arose and trotted forlornly back to camp, pausing once, and twice, to sit down and whimper and to listen to the call that still sounded in the depths of the forest.
He slunkforlornly through the deserted camp, smelling the rubbish-heaps and the discarded rags and tags of the gods.
The train, almost empty, waited forlornly in a forlorn and empty part of the huge, resounding ochreish station.
Florrie was laying her sunshade rather forlornly on the top of the tin trunk and preparing to lift the trunk unaided, when Mr. Boutwood, stout and all in black, came gallantly forth from the house to assist her.
Under the faint paling of the sky the pavements gleamed cold and grey, forlornly visible in the darkness.
All the windows, in fact, that look forlornly at the blank walls or peep over the high gateways into the Ruelle St. Jacob are Royalist windows looking into a street which is blinded by a high wall and is too narrow to allow of turning.
She descended the stairs slowly, rubbing her cold hands together, and looking forlornly about her.
She had wandered out forlornly on the dank paths descending to the stream.
I was in my own room, forlornly endeavouring to work some worsted embroidery; - though the sickness of my heart seemed to find its way into my fingers, and it was with pain and difficulty that they pulled the needle in and out.
Now and then a bicycle wound its nervous way among these portents, or, at long intervals, a surrey or buggy plodded forlornly by.
Meanwhile, the life of the little bereft group still forlornly centering upon him began to pick up again, as life will, and to emerge from its own period of dazedness.
We've got to have food," David said abruptly, as they hesitated forlornly on the outskirts of the little town.
But only the sharp eyes of the other orphans could have detected that the child who clung forlornly to Sally's hand was a newcomer.
Then, turning her eyes, she gazed long at me, searchingly, forlornly on a stranger.
Rosinante awaited me at the little green gate, eyeing forlornly the steep valley at her feet.
It seemed to be in an earlier age that the dark colliers had silently climbed the steep of Bycars Lane amid the dankness and that the first column of smoke had risen forlornly from the chimney.
But immediately she saw him again, sitting forlornly in the chair, with the whole of the left side of his face criss-crossed in whitish-grey plaster, she was ready to cry over him and flatter his foolishest whim.
I was still forlornly mopping when Niono returned in his braided jacket, tights and Hessian boots, whistling a tune.
Illustration: I was forlornly mopping when Niono returned.
She turned forlornly away from him and dropped down upon a settee.
Her voice as she had said, "I know I can never marry Graham" echoed forlornly in his mind's ear.
For there was a broad impartiality about her spell that tugged at Mary even while she forlornly watched Rush yielding to it.
Probably Joy didn't fancy this arrangement any too well, but she remembered that it was her own plan to take the child; therefore she said nothing, and she and Winnie started off forlornly enough.
Meanwhile he stood there on the crimson-draped and flower-bedecked dais, bowing repeatedly, and trusting that he did not look so forlornly foolish as he felt.
Thus arrayed he re-entered the domed hall, where he was annoyed to find that no attempt had been made as yet to prepare a dinner-table, and he was just looking forlornly round for a bell when Rapkin appeared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forlornly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
