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
"Oh, Bab," said wee Lucy, "I had such a loneness without you!"
From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by Sophie May
Deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy, Depart!
From Poems by Mary Baker Eddy
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 F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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
