(v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
(n.) A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
(n.) A forlorn hope; a vanguard.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other side of the square is a forlorn half-built mosque, abandoned for lack of funds, sprouting grass from its foundations.
(2) As at the hospital, there was a forlorn air about Katine primary school the day we called in.
(3) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
(4) Such views are increasingly common all over Detroit, the forlorn former capital of America's car industry and now a by-word for calamitous urban decline.
(5) Up to 15 Tory MPs, including the father of the house of commons Sir Peter Tapsell, spoke in support of Mitchell who was seen to cut a forlorn figure when he took his traditional place close to Cameron for the first session of prime minister's questions since he swore at police.
(6) Diego Forlan would have been forlorn to see his shot miss the target.
(7) He and Michael Bradley, in an advanced midfield role, found neat touches and space to trouble the Turkish defence and bring Jozy Altidore into the game as something other than the forlorn lone striker he can be in a 4-2-3-1.
(8) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
(9) Trump and Ryan could turn to the Democrats for support but the president is such a polarising figure that this seems a forlorn hope.
(10) The latest piece, by Turner-nominated sculptor and installation artists Cornelia Parker, is a mocked-up photo showing Gormley's famous Angel of the North sculpture leaning at a forlorn angle with a symbolically clipped wing.
(11) It is somehow forlorn and vulnerable and desperate and defiant all at once.
(12) It was a misjudgment in the heat of the moment.” The forlorn-looking Formula One world champion muttered: “I can’t really express the way I’m feeling at the moment so I won’t attempt to.
(13) 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.
(14) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
(15) There are elements of Andrei Tarkovsky movies – a forlorn wasteland littered with high-tech wreckage.
(16) I was in Peterborough recently, and the mood of dejection was so strong as to feel contagious, crystallised by the obligatory empty shops, forlorn young people looking for dependable work that never comes, and the issue of immigration becoming more divisive than ever.
(17) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
(18) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
(19) A rather forlorn-looking cup of tepid water into which the bag has yet to be introduced.
(20) Nor on the forlorn hope that punishing the Russian leadership, still less the Russian people, with sanctions could cause the Crimean annexation to be reversed; it will not be.
Unnerve
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(3) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
(4) In this fragile neighbourhood, surprises are always unnerving.
(5) You are lying down with your head in a noisy and tightfitting fMRI brain scanner, which is unnerving in itself.
(6) It's very unnerving to be a prisoner," he tells an English-speaking interviewer in one.
(7) For veterans of the women's movement there may be something unnerving about hearing the familiar slogans from Tory mouths – a sense that, as a female columnist lamented recently of Mensch, these late converts are "the wrong kind" of feminists.
(8) Yuval Shpungin fouled Hazard midway inside the Maccabi half and, with Rajkovic unnerved by the crowd wrestling their way towards the spot, Willian’s inswinging free-kick skipped into the corner of the net.
(9) China has unnerved investors because of an economic slowdown that Beijing seems incapable of steering properly.
(10) The US is to deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe as part of efforts to support eastern European members of the Nato alliance unnerved by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine .
(11) If the notion sounds odd, the reality is only slightly less unnerving than having a black-eyed dog call at your door.
(12) China syndrome: how the slowdown could spread to the Brics and beyond Read more Stock markets dived last week as the prospect of a rate rise combined with figures showing the Chinese economy growing at a slower pace than previously forecast unnerved investors.
(13) She had tried before but only got to page two, and had found it so unnerving that she had been unable to leave the house for three days.
(14) It wasn’t for fear he was going to do something awful to the child but I did think his presence was unnerving for some children.
(15) We can edit nature Andrea Crisanti Still, talk of “editing nature” will unnerve those who are naturally suspicious of such radical moves, and for whom the term “genetic modification” is an automatic red flag.
(16) The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory.
(17) There is this haunting look about him as he comes to terms with the fact he does not have long to live, yet there is this unnerving defiance there as well.” The composer sat for four difficult days in 1881, dying before the planned final sitting.
(18) Martin London Henllan, Denbighshire • Markets are “unnerved”, “market confidence is fast deteriorating”, “market expectations [or should that read speculations?]
(19) The feeling of being an imposter is definitely unnerving.
(20) In a twist that will further unnerve senior police officers, it emerged that Kennedy has asked the public relations agent Max Clifford to sell his story.