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

When thy sad tones were revealing all the loneness o'er thee stealing, Did he not, with fellow-feeling, vow to leave thee nevermore?

From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Who walks thro his world in loneness lifts A soul that is sorrow-rife.

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young

The hour, the distance from her old self, all   The novelty and loneness of the place   Had left a lovely awe on that fair face, And all the land grew strange and magical.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I felt, in my visions, a cosmic and abysmal loneness; with hostility surging from all sides upon some prison where I lay confined.

From The Shunned House by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)