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

In keeping with the whole sad story seemed the gloom of the forest, the loneness of the marsh, and the surge of the waves upon the desolate shore.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

"How delightfully independent you are!" and Miss Fred, encircled by comrades, seemed really to envy the other her loneness in the world.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

The one human thing, with the goblins before me— Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Why dost thou despise Ahania, to cast me from thy bright presence into the world of loneness?

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles