lonesome

Example Sentences

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For an encore, he gave Adès’s arrangement of the lonesome Berceuse from his opera “The Exterminating Angel.”

From New York Times

"Long Long Time" takes its title from Ronstadt's lonesome 1970 single, which Frank finds in a songbook he digs out of Bill's piano bench, insisting on singing for his supper.

From Salon

It took 60 years but a postulator from the Vatican finally came to Richard, a lonesome patch of boggy farmland in southern Louisiana’s rice belt, last December.

From New York Times

Or a lonesome tune, sung with a twang.

From Salon

As she sings on the title track, “I can do whatever I wanna / All by my lonesome … I’m going my way / Livin’ and dyin’ / And I can buy my own d--- denim and diamonds.”

From Washington Post