lonely

Example Sentences

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I wasn’t going to be crushingly lonely at all hours.

From Literature

“I like the company. When it was just me and Sam it got really lonely.”

From Literature

Opalite is a surreal 1980s-inspired video which tells the story of a lonely woman who uses a magical spray to improve her life and find romance with a fellow loner - played by Gleeson.

From BBC

A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Like many men, Turk is lonely, and like many mid-career doctors, he’s also burned out.

From Salon