Example Sentences

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Despite being in the company of countless others facing similar challenges in our generation, we have an overwhelming sense of aloneness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2023

The strong relationship between the two was found in adults older than 67, and there was an overlap of about 25% between loneliness and aloneness in older people, he said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

By contrast, I had made peace with my aloneness after so many years, and I had even found pleasure in my independence.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2023

It’s kind of a metaphor for life and the people that come in and out of your life, and loss and love and death and, again, aloneness.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

I took another step, then another, trying to look around the corner, deeply feeling the distance from the dogs, the aloneness.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen