lonesomeness

Example Sentences

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That lonesomeness changes the tension and weight of the story’s silence.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

“The song is really a culmination of the feelings I’ve felt while traveling alone, where if lonesomeness happened to linger it wasn’t accompanied with sadness but understanding.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2021

In such poems, to long for an individual serves to conjure a general lonesomeness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

Sometimes on afternoons like this I found an excuse to get left behind by the others just to savor the lonesomeness.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2010

Peter would be proud of me, I thought as I worked—and was flooded by a wave of lonesomeness for that brave and cocksure boy.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom