Example Sentences

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What about the fanciness of Douglass’ house, which stands in stark contrast to the comfortless life we’ve seen Brown and Henry living?

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2020

Cleareyed, comfortless, often dazzling, like sun on ice, “Anatomy of a Suicide” follows three generations of women tethered to life by the thinnest possible filament.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

Now I am dead you come to me In the moonlight, comfortless; Ah, what would I have given alive To win such tenderness!

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2016

That doesn't diminish the pain and anxiety of the elderly women who now face a comfortless old age.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2014

My nose tickled from the dust in the sleeping bag, and the basement floor—which was poured concrete beneath a thin, comfortless layer of indoor-outdoor carpeting—made my bones ache whichever way I turned.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt