Example Sentences

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That lonesomeness changes the tension and weight of the story’s silence.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

“The song is really a culmination of the feelings I’ve felt while traveling alone, where if lonesomeness happened to linger it wasn’t accompanied with sadness but understanding.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2021

Almost any recording of “Winterreise” will convey its lonesomeness and austere beauty.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2015

The memory of that suffocating lonesomeness hit me one afternoon at the Spa LaQua in Tokyo Dome City.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2014

Then she’d lie awake in bed asking lonesomeness some questions.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston