How to use lonesome in a sentence

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• He sat off on one side, lonesome as a country shouse.From the entry shouse
• What was remarkable about his music wasn’t the folk-rock acoustic strum or the stoic, lonesome vocals.2024 August 4, Brad Wheeler, “Philippe Mckenzie was a trailblazing Innu folk singer and cultural catalyst”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry Innu-aimun
• The band is starting, something lonesome, off-key, and drowning in reverb.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 265. From the entry reverb
• Working on his lonesome every day definitely had him craving a bit of human company.2015, Josephine Myles, chapter 10, in Scrap, →ISBN. From the entry on one's lonesome
• Then it wasn't one lonesome critter; it was a woodsful, tearing each others' eyeballs out.2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still. From the entry woodsful
• We can deal with this all by our lonesomes, we got enough gas.2004, Ted Bell, Assassin: A Novel, page 269. From the entry lonesomes
• You and me is headin' north and west, all by our lonesomes.2002, Charles G. West, Savage Cry, page 192. From the entry lonesomes
• Now, the one-stop-sign bump in the road is officially marked along Georgia's long and lonesome Highway 16.1998 December 6, Marilyn Thompson, “South of Atlanta, 'Fried' and True”, in Washington Post, retrieved 21 Jul 2014. From the entry bump in the road
• "Some folks are lonesome all their life and some are hungry .1993, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. From the entry Hoover hog
• And what Peter had imagined to be his snores had really been the lonesome death rattle.1950, Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, →ISBN, page 476. From the entry death rattle
• On a crisp fall day, traveling by your lonesome during rush hour, the métro is surely your best option.2008, Conrad Lucas II, William D. Norgard, “Upon Arrival: The Essentials”, in Europe Beyond Your Means: The Paris Edition, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry métro
• But long live the spirit of the amateur cameraman, the solo recording engineer, and the lonesome knob twiddler.2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry knob-twiddler
• "Sittin' there all on her lonesome the whole day long, it's understandable she gets down in the dumps."1996, Joan Jonker, Sweet Rosie O'Grady (2012 Headline ebook edition), Google books online. From the entry on one's lonesome
• So utterly, terribly lonesome, And then—he saw the Princess!1928, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Dark Princess, Part 1. From the entry unregretfully
• When he couldn’t take another step he hid under a lonesome gray house and squatted in the fetid water of the crawl space.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 147. From the entry crawl space
• The devil's rope was originally designed to keep cows from roaming, Indians from encroaching, and the cowboys from singing their lonesome ballads.2011, Linh Dinh, Love Like Hate: A Novel, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry devil's rope
• Ernest Borgnine (who hit stardom as the lonesome butcher in “Marty”) is opening up a chain of drive-in hamburgeries in Mexico City.1961 January 3, Corpus Christi Caller, volume 78, number 296, page 8B. From the entry hamburgery
• It looked a dreich, cold place as you rode by at night, near as lonesome as the old Mill was, and not near as handy.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Epilude: The Unfurrowed Field”, in Ian Campbell, editor, Sunset Song: A…. From the entry dreich
• This chace or lane ran a mile and a-half down lonesome marshes, pleasant enough in the summer months, but dull and dismal in the winter.1902, Essex Review, volume 11, page 93. From the entry manorway
• I know it is lonesome for you, but I will be with you again in time and then we can and will have a "tarnation good time."2009, Dennis M. Larsen -, Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise, page 29. From the entry tarnation
• He was missing his "mother-servant," and was "complainey"-⁠- not just the "I'm sad and lonesome, won't someone love me?," but the, "I'm mad as all get out.1994 August, Michael Pearl, Debi Pearl, “Training Examples”, in To Train Up a Child, Pleasantville, Tenn.: Michael & Debi Pearl, published…. From the entry complainey
• Wasn’t it only last January, when I was away down in lonesome land, when Elizabeth Ann sent me the nicest box of whitish and chocolatish fudge you ever saw?1916 September 17, “Elizabeth Ann”, in The Courier-Journal, volume CXXVI, number 17,427 (New Series), Louisville, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The…. From the entry chocolatish
• Then the boys arrived, with their camping paraphernalia, and in such bubbling good spirits that the girls were infected with them, for they had become rather lonesome of late.1913, Laura Lee Hope, chapter 21, in The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake. From the entry paraphernalia

Meaning of lonesome

1. adjective Unhappy due to being alone; lonely.
2. noun Oneself alone.

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Questions about lonesome in a sentence

How do you use lonesome in a sentence?

Lonesome is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I sat and watched the cars pass all by my lonesome.”

What is a short sentence with lonesome?

“So utterly, terribly lonesome, And then—he saw the Princess!”

What does lonesome mean?

Lonesome means unhappy due to being alone; lonely.