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

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

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

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

She was becoming accustomed to be called ‘my lady’ and ‘your ladyship,’ and the new loneness made her feel better prepared to take her place amongst new surroundings.

From The Man by Stoker, Bram