lonesomeness

Example Sentences

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That lonesomeness changes the tension and weight of the story’s silence.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

“The song is really a culmination of the feelings I’ve felt while traveling alone, where if lonesomeness happened to linger it wasn’t accompanied with sadness but understanding.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2021

In such poems, to long for an individual serves to conjure a general lonesomeness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

Sometimes on afternoons like this I found an excuse to get left behind by the others just to savor the lonesomeness.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2010

Most of the day she was at the store, but at night she was there in the big house and sometimes it creaked and cried all night under the weight of lonesomeness.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston