loneness

Example Sentences

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Radtke conveys loneliness as a societal problem but also shows the extreme personal toll it can have on someone and how, the deeper into loneness you fall, the harder it is to come out.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2021

The one human thing, with the goblins before me— Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Give not your self to loneness, and those graces Hid from the eyes of men, that were intended To live amongst us swains.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis

Then they were alone, and it was a loneness such as an eagle might feel when it held itself poised high in the curve of blue.

From The Lost Prince by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

I was about to say, that there are times, When the most frank and sociable man May surfeit on most loved society, Preferring loneness rather— Mrs. F. To my company— Kath.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles