aloneness

Example Sentences

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Her Iris lets us see why, in our darkest times, the poles of forced solitude and togetherness can feel so unsatisfying, yet the right kind of aloneness can be the stuff of real healing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

A “sense of aloneness — of loneliness, really — is the theme that runs through Hecht’s strongest writing and through Yezzi’s biography. Yezzi is alert to it.”

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

In younger people, aloneness and loneliness are just two different things, Mehl said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

Clowes, however, acknowledges that the book’s nine stories dwell on themes of aloneness and abandonment and “permutations of those ideas.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2023

Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck