lonely
Example Sentences
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Coming back from brain trauma can be a lonely journey and finding books for my wife became a way that I could walk beside her on the road to recovery.
Karishma is so desperately lonely that she finds solace in his company, but no one else can stand him.
She said the people she chatted to often seemed "really nice" but were obviously lonely, making the whole process feel sad, especially as she was not the person she was pretending to be.
From BBC
Which was fine for her, I guess, although her life sounds pretty lonely.
From Literature
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Test audiences liked the story of a lonely boy who finds friends in outer space, but said they wouldn’t pay to see it in a theater.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.