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

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

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

He had no taste for more cheerful images, and there are neither rural objects nor villagery in the scenes he describes, but only loneness and the solemnity of mountains.

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

She lingers where a ruddy glow Streams outward through an open shutter, Adding more bitterness to woe, More loneness to desertion utter.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell