forsaken
Example Sentences
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It’s a fleeting tableau, but it reveals the whole story: even the most forsaken creation reaches for connection the moment he’s given something warm to hold in his hands.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
Among the indignities a newly vulnerable Mickey suffers, each one spurts out of a stuttering printer and flops to the floor, forsaken.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025
He goes on to say they were "looking forward to a day scampering" and made the decision to leave their packs because they spent two days "lugging them up this God forsaken valley".
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
Henley’s current lawyer, Dan Petrocelli, said in an emailed statement that the attorney-client privilege that had previously shielded some of the communications “is a foundational guardrail in our justice system” that should rarely be forsaken.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024
At one o’clock Jan will come for half an hour to check on us poor forsaken souls, like a zookeeper.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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