LONELY in a Sentence

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211 example sentences for LONELY, such as:

1. A lonely feeling stole over me.
2. I feel lonely without my husband.
3. It was precious dirty and lonely.
4. I live all alone but I never feel lonely.
5. Love when you are ready, not when you are lonely.

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 Meanings and Examples of LONELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lonely
 a.  lacking companions or companionship
Classic Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
1  The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  It was precious dirty and lonely.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  It shows that the man we are after is not as lonely as I imagined he was, but has friends who are ready to risk something for him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
4  To this day, in the lonely ranches of the West, the name of the Danite Band, or the Avenging Angels, is a sinister and an ill-omened one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
5  They could see the lonely watcher fingering his gun, and peering down at them as if dissatisfied at their reply.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
6  Tales were told in the City of the weird figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted the lonely mountain gorges.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  He thought this trip to some lonely bank across the lagoon probably meant business: business being l'amore, love.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  Sunbury was passed through, and they came again into the lonely road.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  Pitying his condition, they might have compassion on him; and if they did not, it would be better, he thought, to die near human beings, than in the lonely open fields.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  Morning came; and the little cottage was lonely and still.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  If your answer be what I almost dare to hope it is,' retorted Harry, 'it will shed a gleam of happiness upon my lonely way, and light the path before me.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  Any sound of men in that lonely place, even though it conveyed a real cause of alarm, was something to him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
14  But they remained, and established themselves; and the lonely person who hitherto had been queen of the solitude did not at present seem likely to return.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
15  But the effect of coming into society and light after lonely wandering in darkness is a sociability in the comer above its usual pitch, expressed in the features even more than in words.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  I live all alone but I never feel lonely.
2  Or a person continue to lonely down, don't need anyone Li frets.
3  Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim.
4  To forgive is not to forget, nor remit, but let it go; to be lonely is not because you have no friends, but no one is living in your heart.
5  Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
6  Sam was very lonely when he first moved to New York.
7  A person walking down the street, suddenly remind of lonely I love you.
8  Itself is a lonely, but also make you feel lonely antidote.
9  A lonely feeling stole over me.
10  I feel lonely without my husband.
11  Is heavy likely is the dark memorial speech lonely.
12  What good method, can let the lonely become obedient.
13  To forgive is not to forget, nor remit, but let it go; to be lonely is not becoz u have no friends, but no one is living in ur heart.
14  Love when you are ready, not when you are lonely.
15  Don't wait to be lonely, to recognize the value of a friend.