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

Why dost thou despise Ahania, to cast me from thy bright presence into the world of loneness?

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

When thy sad tones were revealing all the loneness o'er thee stealing, Did he not, with fellow-feeling, vow to leave thee nevermore?

From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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

Deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy, Depart!

From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker