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It can be used to describe a state of being sad, abandoned, or hopeless, often in a literary or emotional context. Example: "After the storm passed, the once vibrant garden was forlorn, with wilted flowers and broken branches scattered everywhere."
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was forlorn
adjective
Abandoned, left behind, deserted.
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Yet, Mi Nuong was forlorn and melancholy.
At times in the second half Shearer's demeanour was forlorn.
Mr. Benhamou then realized he didn't want to live in the financial district, which was forlorn on weekends.
Messi, undoubtedly the player of 2009 for his week-by-week brilliance with Barcelona, was forlorn and confused in Argentina's confused and almost forlorn qualification campaign.
Elena by contrast was forlorn, staring dully in front of her and not reacting when her husband briefly patted her leg.
It will see out the season as champion in La Liga, but a squad that was troubled in Europe by Celtic, Milan and Paris Saint-Germain was forlorn and waiting for the final whistle in Munich.
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My hopes have been forlorn.
Ryan thinks such attempts are forlorn.
Many of Goldberg's subjects are forlorn.
But this hope is forlorn, and in fact damaging.
Everyone is forlorn; everyone's mother has gone away.
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