aloneness

Example Sentences

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A “sense of aloneness — of loneliness, really — is the theme that runs through Hecht’s strongest writing and through Yezzi’s biography. Yezzi is alert to it.”

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Despite being in the company of countless others facing similar challenges in our generation, we have an overwhelming sense of aloneness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2023

The strong relationship between the two was found in adults older than 67, and there was an overlap of about 25% between loneliness and aloneness in older people, he said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

Clowes, however, acknowledges that the book’s nine stories dwell on themes of aloneness and abandonment and “permutations of those ideas.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2023

I took another step, then another, trying to look around the corner, deeply feeling the distance from the dogs, the aloneness.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen