loneness
Example Sentences
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Radtke conveys loneliness as a societal problem but also shows the extreme personal toll it can have on someone and how, the deeper into loneness you fall, the harder it is to come out.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
Stratford March 2, 1615 I write with rain across my oriel, and the fire almost out in my fireplace, and my loneness sniveling in its pot.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
When thy sad tones were revealing all the loneness o'er thee stealing, Did he not, with fellow-feeling, vow to leave thee nevermore?
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
I felt, in my visions, a cosmic and abysmal loneness; with hostility surging from all sides upon some prison where I lay confined.
From The Shunned House by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
In the meantime there was the lonely, unwanted spinster opposite, with her immediate claim of nearness and loneness; and, as if to direct her thoughts into another channel, he said:
From Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
