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

Almost any recording of “Winterreise” will convey its lonesomeness and austere beauty.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2015

The lonesomeness, and then the struggle to overcome it in a relationship with the player who is your on-court rival: that, in essence, is the history, or the subconscious history, of high-level tennis.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2011

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