LONESOME in a Sentence

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23 example sentences for LONESOME, such as:

1. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
2. Come and see me sometimes when you're lonesome.
3. I'm never lonesome here like I used to be in town.
4. Memory is heel, lonesome is dent, I a person coexistence.
5. Then he found it lonesome, and went to find his comrades.

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 Meanings and Examples of LONESOME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lonesome
 a.  marked by dejection from being alone
 a.  being the only one; single and isolated from others
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Frances told her to come again, whenever she was lonesome or wanted advice about anything.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
2  Lena replied that she didn't believe she would ever get lonesome in Black Hawk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
3  Come and see me sometimes when you're lonesome.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
4  The colonel is long-winded, but then I expect he's lonesome.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
5  I'm never lonesome here like I used to be in town.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
6  "She would naturally go a lonesome way," said Haley, thinking aloud, and not minding Sam's remark.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  It was getting so lonesome anyway, and now it'll be worse.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  Then he found it lonesome, and went to find his comrades.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
10  I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
11  I waited, and it seemed a good while, everything was so still and lonesome.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II.
12  In this little lonesome dwelling, with some slender means that she possessed, and by the licence of the magistrates, who still kept an inquisitorial watch over her, Hester established herself, with her infant child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
13  It were but lonesome then," said Joe, "living here alone, and I got acquainted with your sister.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
14  Ye see, when I got up to the door it was so still and so lonesome, that I thought I'd be none the worse for some one with me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
15  "'Tis very lonesome for 'ee in the heth tonight, mis'ess," said Christian, coming from the seclusion he had hitherto maintained.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
Example Sentence:
1  "Ah, childer!" said she, "it fair troubles me to go into yond' room now: it looks so lonesome wi' the chair empty and set back in a corner."
2  When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags.
3  Memory is heel, lonesome is dent, I a person coexistence.