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

In keeping with the whole sad story seemed the gloom of the forest, the loneness of the marsh, and the surge of the waves upon the desolate shore.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

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

From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by May, Sophie

He adds, If of court-life you knew the good, You would leave loneness.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

Only in the uneventful days to find her loneness intensified a thousand times, and without escape.

From Winding Paths by Page, Gertrude