lonesome

Example Sentences

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One paradoxical thing about sound designers is that they like to spend hours perfecting a single sound by their lonesome, yet they’re also team players.

From Los Angeles Times

"I get so lonesome since the man has been gone," she sings, echoing a tired trope.

From Salon

With the optional subwoofer and rear surrounds As capable as the HT-A7000 is by its lonesome, more speakers are always better when it comes to home theater.

From The Verge

“Her presence makes actors of them all,” Kleeman writes, describing Cassidy’s home as an “expensive, lonesome space,” which “inspires as much sympathy as envy.”

From Los Angeles Times

Throw in some wine, and what’s to stop a party, even if it’s just your lonesome on a Tuesday?

From Washington Post