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

The memory of that suffocating lonesomeness hit me one afternoon at the Spa LaQua in Tokyo Dome City.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2014

Somebody near about making summertime out of lonesomeness.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston