Sentence examples for forlorn from inspiring English sources

But with cabinet ministers, Labour MPs and Lib Dem activists all warning against excess Lib-Lab intimacy, that may prove a forlorn hope.

'Until 7 June [the day of the general election] we consoled ourselves with a forlorn hope,' he says.

The child-sized blue jeans lay twisted and forlorn in the scrubland along one of the most popular routes for undocumented migrants crossing from Mexico into Texas.

Thanks to allegations about the Unite union's activities in an apparently moribund local Labour party, Falkirk recently became a byword for Labour's forlorn position in Scotland.

Some of their grand chapels were demolished; others now stand forlorn and ruined amid the tombs, ghostly hollow shells.

My dad was there – I almost never saw him at that time – but he was there with my mom, with the same forlorn look on his face.

It had been sitting on the egg shelf of my fridge, beside a forlorn scrotum of Mini Babybels, for 36 hours and had been on my mind almost constantly.

Nadal simply had no answer to Murray's variety and consistency, cutting an increasingly forlorn figure as he was repeatedly subjected to the rare indignity of being outrallied and out-thought from the back of the court.

I feel for Broad and Bresnan, cos they're looking forlorn at the state of the rest of their teammates.

He cut a forlorn and sometimes comic figure for most of his life, manoeuvred by aides and bossed about by first his mother, Simone, and elder sister, Marie-Denise (who demanded to be president in his place), and then his imperious wife.

My saying any of this is, of course, in forlorn hope.