companionless
Example Sentences
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It is called the Cemetery of the Companionless.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019
In that way, this is a novel determined to pay attention to the most alienated, those people discarded in Istanbul’s Cemetery of the Companionless.
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2019
Companionless, for a mile or more, He traced the windings of the shore.
From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
Or pining tenderness— Whose streams will never dry or cease to flow; An aching, voiceless void, Hushed in the heart whereunto none reply, And in the cringing crowd Companionless!
From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker
Companionless, inert, he suffered the tortures which are so ludicrous and contemptible to the happily married.
From New Grub Street by Gissing, George