LONELINESS in a Sentence

Learn LONELINESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

47 example sentences for LONELINESS, such as:

1. She felt a sudden pang of profound loneliness.
2. There was a loneliness, an isolation, about it that chilled her.
3. Across it he peered at her with such loneliness that she was startled.
4. Her heart shivered with that still loneliness as her body shivered with the wind.
5. Trembling, frightened, a sudden feeling of loneliness upon her, she clasped his arm.

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loneliness
 n.  sadness because one has no friends or company
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  He had been afraid that she would hate the hard life, the cold and loneliness; but not a sign of discontent escaped her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  There was a loneliness, an isolation, about it that chilled her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  The still house with the sense of death heavy upon it pressed about her loneliness until she felt she could not bear it unaided any longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  Now in her loneliness, she would have liked to while away the afternoons with Maybelle or Fanny or Mrs. Elsing or Mrs. Whiting or even that redoubtable old warrior, Mrs. Merriwether.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
5  Trembling, frightened, a sudden feeling of loneliness upon her, she clasped his arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
6  Through the long hours of silence the dark spirit of fatigue and loneliness crouched upon her breast, leaving her so drained of bodily strength that her morning thoughts swam in a haze of weakness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  She felt a sudden pang of profound loneliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
8  But the sense of loneliness returned with redoubled force as she saw herself forever shut out from Selden's inmost self.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
9  It was not till she entered her own door that she felt the reaction of a deeper loneliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
10  With the loneliness which comes most depressingly in the midst of many people she tried to forget problems, to look at the prairie objectively.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Her heart shivered with that still loneliness as her body shivered with the wind.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  Across it he peered at her with such loneliness that she was startled.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  With the loneliness of one who has put away a possible love Carol saw that he was a stranger.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  Except when Hugh was vigorously naughty, or whiney, or laughing, or saying "I like my chair" with thrilling maturity, she was always enfeebled by loneliness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  The last thing she saw on the station platform was Kennicott, faithfully waving his hand, his face so full of uncomprehending loneliness that he could not smile but only twitch up his lips.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence:
1  By witnessing mass-death, he joined them in their awful loneliness; he wanted no images from the camps, no newsreel footage, since those were sacrilege.
2  Some people say that loneliness is shameful, but fashion is a means of resistance alone, this is fashion realm.
3  I feel lonelier in the middle of London than I do on my boat in the middle of nowhere.