How to Use forgetful in a Sentence

forgetful

adjective
  • He became forgetful in his old age.
  • What are the most forgetful cities?
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • The Voice fans are a lot of things, but forgetful is not one of them.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 26 Feb. 2019
  • The forgetful people on your list need one, stat.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2025
  • That slow, forgetful server who made your blood boil could have just had the worst day of his or her life.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Some are now widows, some no longer drive and some are getting forgetful.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Now 82 years old, Chase comes off as a surly, forgetful man.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Children can be forgetful and finicky, with likes and dislikes that seem to change on a whim.
    — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2020
  • To give 'em pumpkin to talk about Why was the jack-o'-lantern so forgetful?
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 6 July 2023
  • Lost-item trackers, the high-tech savior of the forgetful, aren’t new.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 9 May 2021
  • Plus, people can be forgetful and seem to lose memories that were once in their heads.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • In other words, even the most forgetful person can safely tote it home.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The sources described other episodes where Biden lost his train of thought or was forgetful.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 July 2024
  • Then, last year, the woman began to feel forgetful and depressed.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And not to worry—for us moms of ahem, forgetful teens, there is a three-hour auto shut-off on the blanket.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Your son is not trying to be lazy or forgetful; he is simply finished with that work and moving on.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
  • There are five heat settings and a 3-hour auto safety shut-off for both fickle and forgetful teens.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 19 Nov. 2024
  • People loosened up, and told a few of their own stories, and got slowly pickled and forgetful.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • Hur concluded a jury would find Biden a well-meaning old man who was forgetful.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The star of Netflix’s latest sci-fi series isn’t a forgetful robot or even a pesky kid.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But sometimes, most of us are too busy (or just plain forgetful) to head out each week and purchase a fresh bouquet to display in our homes.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 2 July 2019
  • The forgetful part of her personality is always fun to watch and still funny to this day.
    — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
  • An Ohio man’s forgetful memory led to him winning a huge lottery prize.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Brokenhearted, Michelle takes to sleeping in late and grows even more forgetful and sad.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And for the forgetful guest, the park sells face masks alongside all those other souvenirs — branded with its logo, of course.
    — Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 21 June 2020
  • A lot of establishing is done in the first quarter of the book that feels tedious and sometimes forgetful.
    — Delfina V Barbiero, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Their mother, delayed or forgetful, failed to pick them up from school one day, so Stringfield came to the rescue.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Biden has a clear forgetful streak and struggled occasionally to bring things to mind in the moment.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The third company is plagued with bad luck, with either a forgetful lead singer or slip-ups in choreography.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Jacksonville, Florida, took the top spot for being the most forgetful city.
    — Emmy Abbassi, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023

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