lonely
Example Sentences
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As a child, Semple was lonely, teased and bullied.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
“I moved around a lot with my dad and it was a very lonely existence,” he recalls of his youth.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Being diagnosed in 2020 at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Trish said it was a lonely cancer journey and it's only recently that she can talk about the trauma.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
He’s merely one of 347 biologists that Eva assigned to solve the case, so he’s confounded to be in this lonely predicament.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
The bare and lonely fact of it made her feel like a solitary stalk of grass left waving forlornly in a field after the thresher had come and harvested all the rest for hay.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
