forlorn dans le dictionnaire PONS

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Led by two forlorn-hopes, two columns would advance upon the defences around the breach, then wheel right and left to take over the fortifications.
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Its purpose is to hinder and frustrate an attack made by the forlorn hope.
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The white rectangular military caps looked as forlorn as the brown of deserted piers.
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They can still be seen today as a forlorn reminder of the tragedy of 1879.
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In 1985 a section of the floor of this bunker was dug up in a forlorn attempt to find the secret tunnel.
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It looked forlorn in the rain with all the barbed wire.
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The prospects for the volunteers were grim, and the group was accordingly known as the forlorn hope.
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As a forlorn hope he had to wed a third wife; but his heart was not engaged and his expectations were far from sanguine.
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The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called, in nineteenth century vernacular, a forlorn hope.
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Anyone who tried to hoodwink him was on a forlorn and dangerous path.
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