Example Sentences

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Or: “All across the silver hills in the east the cold spring night lovelessly descends.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2021

He now works as a carpenter at a shop on the outskirts of Paris and is preparing to marry, lovelessly, his boss’s daughter.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2018

I objected strenuously, but he looked so worn and thin, so lonely and bad-tempered, so lovelessly grotesque, that I got out of bed and passed a spongeful of cold water over my head.

From In Search of the Unknown by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

How the long night flags lovelessly and slowly, And my head droops over thee like the willow!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley