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Main Entry:
lone·ly
[
lohn
-lee
]
/
ˈloʊn
li
/
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Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
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Example Sentences
Doctors have known for a long time that feeling
lonely
can make you physically sick, but until now they did not know why.
Red-footed tortoises in the wild live a typically
lonely
tortoise life, without even being cared for by their parents.
Sleeping with a
lonely
heart brings a hormone jolt in the morning.
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Doctors have known for a long time that feeling
lonely
can make you physically sick, but until now they did not know why.
Red-footed tortoises in the wild live a typically
lonely
tortoise life, without even being cared for by their parents.
Sleeping with a
lonely
heart brings a hormone jolt in the morning.
But it is unusual to find
lonely
patches of ice away from the poles.
Imagination fills in the stories of that room,the chair and the history of the inhabitants of that now
lonely
room.
If it's harder to find privacy, it's also harder to be
lonely
.
It can be
lonely
at the top, especially when it comes to global university rankings.
It could be cool to live in a graveyard, but it could also be
lonely
to grow up without other kids.
The discovery of a nearby solar system renders our corner of space a little bit less
lonely
.
For a newly formed amino acid in the early ocean, it must have been a
lonely
life indeed.
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