comfortless

Example Sentences

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What about the fanciness of Douglass’ house, which stands in stark contrast to the comfortless life we’ve seen Brown and Henry living?

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2020

Now I am dead you come to me In the moonlight, comfortless; Ah, what would I have given alive To win such tenderness!

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2016

That doesn't diminish the pain and anxiety of the elderly women who now face a comfortless old age.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2014

As cold to himself as to his clients, he lives in a comfortless flat where the entrails from the previous night’s chicken dinner still decorate the bathroom floor.

From New York Times • May 17, 2013

He wandered through the wild solitudes of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre, playing, always playing, and the rocks and the rivers and the trees heard him gladly, his only companions.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton