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

Almost any recording of “Winterreise” will convey its lonesomeness and austere beauty.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2015

The lonesomeness, and then the struggle to overcome it in a relationship with the player who is your on-court rival: that, in essence, is the history, or the subconscious history, of high-level tennis.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2011

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