How to use loneliness in a sentence

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• “I believe deep inside everyone's heart is an underlying loneliness,” he says.2025 October 14, Catherine Thorbecke, “China’s AI Dragons Must Survive ‘Involution’ to Conquer the World”, in Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P.. From the entry view
• While scrolling through BeReals in the past few weeks, I’ve occasionally felt gripped by loneliness.2022 May 13, R. E. Hawley, “BeReal and the Fantasy of an Authentic Online Life”, in The New Yorker. From the entry BeReal
• No amount of shopping truly helps with emptiness, loneliness or sorrow.2021 April, Brigid Lowry, “November: Living Simply”, in A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself: & Other Essays, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry dollarbuck
• Loneliness, conversely, can be deadly: one study found it did more damage to health than smoking.2015 June 4, “With a little help from my friends: Poverty is about who you know as much as what you earn”, in The Economist, archived from…. From the entry conversely
• While this juncture can bring on sadness and loneliness, it can also signal newfound freedom and fulfillment.2014, Lisa O. Engelhardt, Empty Nest Therapy, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry empty nest
• This vicious cycle, "the loneliness loop," has been studied by economists for more than a decade.2013 August 7, Derek Thompson, “The Loneliness Loop: Why Feeling Sad Makes Us Shop and Shopping Makes Us Sad”, in The Atlantic. From the entry retail therapy
• "What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC.2013, Lorna Stewart, BBC News, Love letters and kindness may improve mental health. From the entry backburner
• The loneliness and remote grandeur of the scene swept one into an angelless Paradise.2007, Mark Channing, India Mosaic. From the entry angelless
• It may generate feelings that come close to loneliness and "unneededness," especially at higher levels.1970, Dale Yoder, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, 6th edition, Eaglewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, page 570. From the entry unneededness
• But Bobtails were comradely; they guarded the men from the desperate loneliness in those isolated places.1944, Emily Carr, “Punk”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry comradely
• The bitter-sweet of their overwhelming loneliness created a longing to return to them.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry bittersweet
• Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.2021 July 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry scarily
• Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.2013, Kristina Lloyd, Thrill Seeker, Black Lace, →ISBN. From the entry soul-crushing
• Hard push factors include war, starvation and environmental catastrophes, while soft push factors persecution, poverty and social loneliness.2005, Stephen Codrington, “Population Change”, in Planet Geography, 3rd edition, Sydney: Solid Star Press, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry push factor
• What moves directly in the images created by the antiromantic authors is their gaze, an expression of abandonment and loneliness.1995, Gunter Gebauer, Christoph Wulf, Mimesis: culture, art, society. From the entry antiromantic
• The loneliness and drabness of prison life is destroying me.1980 April 12, Robert Hollins, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19. From the entry drabness
• Sick at heart and oppressed with his feeling of loneliness and impotence, he could only look at her in speechless misery.1919, Ralph Connor, chapter 19, in The Major. From the entry sick at heart
• Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.1915 January, Zane Grey, chapter III, in The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers…. From the entry lone wolf
• But many also say that they've found a way to conquer the loneliness and isolation that plagues so many Americans — especially today's parents.2024 December 6, Katia Riddle, “How to be not lonely? 'Cohousing' is an answer for some people”, in Shots, NPR, retrieved 07 Dec 2024. From the entry cohousing
• There you can find pure loneliness.2015 February 14, “Kaltenbrunner: “All Everest parties around one table!””, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023. From the entry grouse
• Really buay tank the loneliness here.2015 February 18, “冰冷的除夕夜”, in dreamexplorer (blog), retrieved 28 Mar 2016. From the entry buay tank
• Is this to strengthen the fright for loneliness and silence, the same fright that the errand ghost of those haunted places feels?2005, C. Jürschik y P. García, Interview with Jonathan Boakes. From the entry errand-ghost
• “What, wallowing in loneliness?” asked Jane.1986, Orson Scott Card, “Speaker for the Dead”, in Ender’s War (Ender’s Game; 1–2), Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →OCLC…. From the entry lacrimose
• They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136. From the entry dampness
• For artists their work objectifies their yearning for love, "thatched" as we all are "in a thicket of loneliness, huddled in onlyhood."1963, The Critic - Volume 21, Issue 4. From the entry onlyhood
• Perhaps the situation is not so bad and only my loneliness and your plaguiness, Madame, cause me to see things blacker than they are.1940, Frida Uhl, Marriage with genius, page 412. From the entry plaguiness
• And besides, Picasso starts out with loneliness and an effusion of pity, while Poussin starts out fierce: (that stairful of people who are handover-handing St.1929 November 1, A[lpheus] Hyatt Mayor, “A. Hyatt Mayor to Lincoln Kirstein”, in Mitzi Berger Hamovitch, editor, The Hound & Horn Letters…. From the entry stairful
• If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 43”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry divine
• The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting.2017 May 3, Michael Paterniti, “Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man”, in GQ, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast…. From the entry narcoleptic
• Ironically, it's the maligned shopoholics who seem to have it right, and they might hold the key to breaking the vicious cycle of loneliness and consumption.2013 August 7, Derek Thompson, “The Loneliness Loop: Why Feeling Sad Makes Us Shop and Shopping Makes Us Sad”, in The Atlantic. From the entry shopoholic
• One is tempted to call them elfin, for what kind of men would struggle up those backbreaking slopes all their maizebread goatmilk days to achieve such loneliness?1997, Taufiq Rafat, “Lights”, in Muneeza Shamsie, editor, A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English, Karachi…. From the entry maizebread
• Her loneliness and her rejection by other children are traced through the seasons until winter, when she builds a snowchild, which invites the companionship of a new friend.1995, The Horn Book Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Books, volume 6, Horn Book, page 36, column 2. From the entry snowchild
• The death of his wife, followed by months of being alone, had marked him with guilt and shame and had left an unbreaking loneliness on him.1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 10, in The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, published 1976, page 104. From the entry mark
• They were usually old and ugly, and for this reason many unfortunate old ladies, whose only crimes were loneliness and a lack of beauty, went to the stake.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 106. From the entry witch
• The sound came against the wind fierce and complaining, antagonistic like the voice of loneliness crying out against them and telling them to be gone—be gone—be gone!1919, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Beach of Dreams, Toronto: S. B. Gundy, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 65. From the entry give tongue
• These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad. From the entry accentuate
• Each core autistic participant engaged in three naturalistic conversations around the topic of loneliness with: (1) a familiar, chosen conversation partner; (2) a non-autistic stranger and (3) an autistic stranger.2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments”…. From the entry naturalistic

Meaning of loneliness

1. noun A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
2. noun The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.
3. noun The state of being unfrequented or devoid of human activity (of a place or time).

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Questions about loneliness in a sentence

How do you use loneliness in a sentence?

Loneliness is used as a noun. For example: “The loneliness resulting from the loss of loved ones, lack of purpose in life, and social discrimination is a real inner hell.”

What is a short sentence with loneliness?

“Really buay tank the loneliness here.”

What does loneliness mean?

Loneliness means a feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.