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 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

In the meantime there was the lonely, unwanted spinster opposite, with her immediate claim of nearness and loneness; and, as if to direct her thoughts into another channel, he said:

From Winding Paths by Page, Gertrude

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

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

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)