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

The one human thing, with the goblins before me— Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

And in this new loneness of his that had been selected for what greatness he might achieve, beauty must be relative or, itself a harmony, it would make only a discord.

From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

He had no taste for more cheerful images, and there are neither rural objects nor villagery in the scenes he describes, but only loneness and the solemnity of mountains.

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

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

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young