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

Who walks thro his world in loneness lifts A soul that is sorrow-rife.

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young

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 Bartlett, Paul Alexander

"Oh, Bab," said wee Lucy, "I had such a loneness without you!"

From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by May, Sophie

The hour, the distance from her old self, all   The novelty and loneness of the place   Had left a lovely awe on that fair face, And all the land grew strange and magical.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir