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

The one human thing, with the goblins before me— Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

He adds, If of court-life you knew the good, You would leave loneness.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

She was becoming accustomed to be called ‘my lady’ and ‘your ladyship,’ and the new loneness made her feel better prepared to take her place amongst new surroundings.

From The Man by Stoker, Bram

And in this new loneness of his that had been selected for what greatness he might achieve, beauty must be relative or, itself a harmony, it would make only a discord.

From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)