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Examples
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We originally tested Edward in a plain white shirt, as a forlorn-looking option.
'New Moon' costume designer Tish Monaghan on Edward's suit and Jacob's cut-offs | EW.com 2009
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Mind-boggled and not yet finished with my first cup of coffee, I turned for comfort to my hometown paper, the Washington Post, only to find a large close-up photo of an extremely forlorn-looking Marion Barry.
What Were They Thinking? Christopher Buckley 2010
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After shaking his hand in confusion, she wandered back into an old kitchen, then a bedroom, where she found a solitary and forlorn-looking Secret Service agent standing watch.
Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010
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Many of these students come from less-than-privileged backgrounds in forlorn-looking towns on the outskirts of London.
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Waiting outside Buckholtz's apartment building, Yount, who has a relaxed, gregarious comic style, spies a forlorn-looking chair parked on the street corner.
One-joke town: Can comics hit the big time in Washington? Christina Ianzito 2010
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(At this point, Maddow shows footage of a forlorn-looking, untended boom in a marsh she visited last week).
Bill Mann: Maddow Doing Crucial Reports on BP's Botched Spill Clean-Up 2010
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Mind-boggled and not yet finished with my first cup of coffee, I turned for comfort to my hometown paper, the Washington Post, only to find a large close-up photo of an extremely forlorn-looking Marion Barry.
What Were They Thinking? Christopher Buckley 2010
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(Soundbite of crowd) QUIST-ARCTON: As children head home from a nearby Quranic school, he points down the road from his house to a forlorn-looking compound where he says an active American consulate used to be until it closed its doors about 15 years ago.
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Mind-boggled and not yet finished with my first cup of coffee, I turned for comfort to my hometown paper, the Washington Post, only to find a large close-up photo of an extremely forlorn-looking Marion Barry.
What Were They Thinking? Christopher Buckley 2010
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A pale, eerie, alien world with giant sculptures in the vague shape of cars and wheelie-bins - and occasional forlorn-looking figures staggering back the other way, obscured by a haze of still-falling snow.
Technically Speaking... juliette 2009
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