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

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)

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

I felt, in my visions, a cosmic and abysmal loneness; with hostility surging from all sides upon some prison where I lay confined.

From The Shunned House by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

I was about to say, that there are times, When the most frank and sociable man May surfeit on most loved society, Preferring loneness rather— Mrs. F. To my company— Kath.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles