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

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 Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

Deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy, Depart!

From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker

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

"How delightfully independent you are!" and Miss Fred, encircled by comrades, seemed really to envy the other her loneness in the world.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis