What is "forlornly"

Usage examples of "forlornly".

One of my clearest memories of that wretched weekend is the sight of Jerry Rubin standing forlornly on the steps of a marble building near the Capitol, watching a gang fight at the base of a flagpole.

The lack of black-out so different from England, and - most recently - the dark, wet docks of Milford Haven as the minesweeping flotilla had forlornly set sail.

Past gaggles of silent cottages they drove, the boards that announced VACANCY or BED AND BREAKFAST swinging forlornly now that most of the holiday visitors were gone.

The telephone pole was as he left it too, standing forlornly in the center of the palisade, its crossbars clutching wires that stretched off into infinity.

They appeared to me to be quite beyond his comprehension, for when Caddy took me into the dining-room by mistake and we came upon Mr. Jellyby in his spectacles, forlornly fenced into a corner by the great dining-table and the two gentlemen, he seemed to have given up the whole thing and to be speechless and insensible.

One by one the squibbed muskets banged, their sound echoing forlornly across the shallow valley.

He was one of those preposterous phenomena which afflict the public once in a generation like an epidemic: he resembled no other performer, living or dead, and indeed there was a cadre of diehards which forlornly maintained that he was not a performer at all, but millions of 100 per cent American housewives would have taken a Trappist vow sooner than they would have missed their daily dose of Ziggy Zaglan.

However, once she sat down next to Chris Brinker, who sat watching the fun forlornly.

Behold the pensive pendulation of these auriculars so forlornly a-dangle!

Still numb at the loss of her own baby, when she was not cooking for Rupert's staff, she was always bottle-rearing calves and lambs, or feeding hens and ducks, or Rupert's dogs, or topping up the birdtable, or smuggling forbidden toast and marmalade to Arthur when he hung forlornly out of his chewed-down half-door.

Close by, stooping to pick a night-black lily was his mother, Beth, while, looking on, a clutch of T'ang and their wives stood in their imperial finery, staring forlornly into the dark beyond the Springs.

Much too late, as he faded out of sight around the corner, she recalled her coffee beans forlornly.

The precious quarter clanked forlornly as it tumbled out of sight into the collection box.

Moreta could see the starting poles forlornly tumbled about where the spectacular dead heat of the last race had been run.

He couldn't help thinking of the Jovians, swimming forlornly in their tank of liquid hydrogen in the next exhibition hall.