lovelorn
Example Sentences
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Timby's been inundated with messages from lovelorn followers hoping to replicate her matchmaking success.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The wedding, this theory goes, was payback for 20 years’ worth of media that characterized her as desperate and lovelorn and having only herself to blame for boyfriends who wilted under the media’s gaze.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Maria, who was initially too lovelorn to suspect fraud, lost a year's worth of savings.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Forward-thinking enough to reinvent the guitar-bass-drums palette for the EDM boom; yet stark and lovelorn enough to pass for Motown in another era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
This was very hard, but hardest of all when Echo, too, with all the other lovelorn maidens, loved Narcissus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
