friendless

Example Sentences

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When she first meets Kimiko, Hana is a shy, friendless teenager living in a run-down apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

From what we see of Scotty in flashbacks, he was a buoyant blond goofball — exactly the kind of guy that the apparently friendless and family-less Kenna would have clung to like a life preserver.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

From the time she was a little girl, she was marked by her empathy, befriending the friendless and comforting the crying.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023

Are you friendless, or did you just send a Facebook invite to people who never check Facebook?

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022

Shin was a scrawny, incurious, and for the most part friendless child whose one source of certainty was the guards’ lectures about redemption through snitching.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden