lonesomeness
Example Sentences
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They scrapped Peter Parker’s haunting sense of responsibility for his uncle’s death, his working-class hustle, and the lonesomeness of his secret identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
That lonesomeness changes the tension and weight of the story’s silence.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
“The song is really a culmination of the feelings I’ve felt while traveling alone, where if lonesomeness happened to linger it wasn’t accompanied with sadness but understanding.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2021
In such poems, to long for an individual serves to conjure a general lonesomeness.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2020
And in his lonesomeness he wanted to be close to one of his kids—and they were all so busy that they didn’t know it.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
