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
Only in the uneventful days to find her loneness intensified a thousand times, and without escape.
From Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
She lingers where a ruddy glow Streams outward through an open shutter, Adding more bitterness to woe, More loneness to desertion utter.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
"How delightfully independent you are!" and Miss Fred, encircled by comrades, seemed really to envy the other her loneness in the world.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
Why dost thou despise Ahania, to cast me from thy bright presence into the world of loneness?
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
