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

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

There in their secret place, his feelings bubbled inside him like a stew on the back of the stove—some sad for her in her lonesomeness, but chunks of happiness, too.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson