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

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

From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by May, Sophie

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

From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker

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

I was about to say, that there are times, When the most frank and sociable man May surfeit on most loved society, Preferring loneness rather— Mrs. F. To my company— Kath.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles