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

Give not your self to loneness, and those graces Hid from the eyes of men, that were intended To live amongst us swains.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis

Only in the uneventful days to find her loneness intensified a thousand times, and without escape.

From Winding Paths by Page, Gertrude

In the meantime there was the lonely, unwanted spinster opposite, with her immediate claim of nearness and loneness; and, as if to direct her thoughts into another channel, he said:

From Winding Paths by Page, Gertrude

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 Lowell, James Russell