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Example sentences for "lonely"

Lexicographically close words:
londes; lone; lonelier; loneliest; loneliness; lonesome; lonesomeness; lonesomer; lonesomest; lonesum
  1. That night the voices of two lonely women, praying for the welfare of a still more lonely child, and of a child asking for help in his loneliness, ascended to heaven.

  2. He had always advertised his conviction that things invariably came his way but nothing came his way on this lonely Saturday morning.

  3. One lonely sentinel was perched on the fence scanning the horizon for cops.

  4. The eyes which had been so faithful to a doubtful trust and won the pay of an apple core, could not be trusted now to stay open while he sat, a ragged, lonely figure, on the shore dangling his line in quest of a morsel to eat.

  5. And meanwhile, glowing visions arose in his mind, such visions as no one but a poet or a lonely boy on a Saturday morning in the springtime could possibly have.

  6. No man can tell his thoughts during those lonely hours.

  7. The modulation of her tones suggested a degree of refinement which he had not expected to meet in that lonely region.

  8. The lonely rock rose in solitary barrenness, a bleak and mournful monument of some rude caprice of Nature, which has thrown it out to stand in cheerless desolation amidst the broad waters of the Atlantic.

  9. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs, and cries, 'Thou art my sun!

  10. If you were as lonely as I am," retorted the plump widow, "you would do your best to secure a man toy look after you.

  11. The mummy had disappeared from the Sailor's Rest at Pierside some weeks ago, and now unexpectedly appeared in a lonely garden, surrounded by marshes.

  12. Perhaps the lonely woman was glad to have a sympathetic friend.

  13. I am glad that you will not be lonely when we are married.

  14. Had a little child been born to her it would have eased her heart hunger and filled her lonely life and satisfied her.

  15. She realised that when he was gone she would miss him, would feel doubly lonely by comparison with this bright break in the monotony of her life.

  16. They were both of them lonely souls, whom the rush of events left stranded beyond reach of the changing tides.

  17. And he was feeling every whit as lonely and sad at heart as herself.

  18. And he came back to find her married--gone from her old place at the window, the setting in which he had pictured her during those five lonely years of work.

  19. I've often thought of that day, when I've been lonely and wanting you, and comparing the blue of your eyes with the blue of the African sky.

  20. The lights of many miners' cottages scattered on the hilly darkness twinkled desolate in their disorder, yet twinkled with the lonely homeliness of the Celtic night.

  21. Dark, like a lair where strong beasts had lurked and mated, lonely at night and lonely by day, left to themselves and their own intensity for so many generations.

  22. In fact, the spot has no Revolutionary history worth mentioning, for its existence as a lonely settlement in the wilderness is only coeval with that of our independence.

  23. I've only been in ten minutes, and I was going to settle down to a lonely evening.

  24. After all, was not the companionable evening the time for which the lonely household woman lived through her silent day?

  25. It--it's lonely all day, and I look forward to your coming home.

  26. You don't know how lonely you're making me feel.

  27. When he turned out of the establishment that winter afternoon, on his way to an hotel to dress for his early and lonely dinner somewhere or other, he was pleased.

  28. But he was rather lonely here by himself, and looked around somewhat wistfully at gay couples, laughing parties, all about him.

  29. They could hear many husky voices shouting in unison, and, besides, there were other odd sounds such as might be made by a small army of desperate assailants beating wildly against that stout door of the lonely castle.

  30. I honestly believe, Hugh, this lonely old curiosity of a castle is going to please my queer relative a whole lot.

  31. I, too, had heard some stories about this gloomy make-believe castle that had been built in the lonely woods by old Judge Randall when he married a young wife, and wanted to carry her away from the rest of the world.

  32. We've run across the lonely castle your aunt is negotiating for, and it seems to fill the bill to a dot.

  33. I am often lonely without thee; but do not think I would call thee back while the Lord hath need of thee.

  34. It was a lonely life for her here, and doubly so after her husband's death.

  35. On the foothills, just north of the house, ten lonely graves bore silent witness to that fatal day.

  36. He wore a Hickory Shirt, a discouraged Straw Hat, a pair of Barn-Door Pants clinging to one lonely Gallus and woolen Socks that had settled down over his Plow Shoes.

  37. So she led a lonely Life, dreaming of the One--the Ideal.

  38. He thought of Donna, waiting for him in lonely San Pasqual; he raised his hard brown fist, and in unconscious imitation of Paul Jones he cried aloud: "I have not yet begun to fight!

  39. In the prospect of twining his two hands around the rascal's throat there was a certain primitive pleasure that added impetus to the passage of the Desert Rat up the lonely canyon.

  40. Until that morning Donna never had really known how ardently she longed to escape from the sordid commonplace lonely little town.

  41. In the lonely sage-covered wind-swept cemetery at San Pasqual there rises a black granite monument, severely, plain, eminently befitting one who was not of the presuming kind.

  42. She thought swiftly of the boor who had spoken to her on the train that morning; of her dull lonely changeless life in San Pasqual; and the longing for protection was very great indeed.

  43. To her has been given the glorious gift of imagination, and dull, sordid, lonely San Pasqual, squatting there in the desert sands, cannot rob her of her dreams.

  44. This lonely walk through the darkness of the forest had somewhat unnerved him.

  45. Looking at that vast lonely house, there were two things I never could make out.

  46. His two great hands were full of little odds and ends which she had gathered in her lonely play along the beach, and on the sandhills.

  47. Only little Dutch was howling in some lonely corner slowly, as when her five young masters died.

  48. After hauling out of action in this most inglorious manner, we brought up to refit and revictual at the nearest public-house, a lonely hut where four roads met, and the sign hung from an ancient gibbet.

  49. Glorious luck I had, in truth, and began to forget my troubles, and the long way home again to a lonely cottage, and my fear that little Bunny was passing a sorry day of it.

  50. Gentle pride and quiet moods of lonely meditation had deepened and subdued the radiance of the large grey eyes, and changed the dancing mirth of childhood into soft intelligence.

  51. This was her own expression always, to escape the reproach of crying, when her lonely heart was working with its misty troubles, and sent the tears into her eyes, before the tongue could tell of them.

  52. At any rate they had a good deal of talk by the side of the lonely river, where even the lighters kept aloof, and hugged to the utmost the opposite shore.

  53. Right early, to the very utmost of my recollection, I tumbled into my lonely berth, after seeing my fusil primed, and praying to the Lord for guidance through another and a better year.

  54. Still I could not feel quite sure how far their courage would hold out in a lonely place, and so unkind.

  55. But the driver told me that Parson Chowne took the whole of it three times a-week at a gallop, not being able to live without more harm than this lonely place afforded.

  56. As I told you before, I am a lonely man; I could be content with very little.

  57. You will remember, Miss Waring," he said, "that I told you once before that I am a lonely man.

  58. Stella found them everywhere, in lonely copses, in high-shouldered lanes, or growing like pale sunshine underneath the willows.

  59. She declined to see any visitors, and persisted in being miserable and disconsolate, and in taking lonely walks to brood over her wretchedness.

  60. He hath ordered me a lonely journey, and a long," said Philippa sadly.

  61. Accordingly the next morning (September 6) I started off as usual along the trolley line to the lonely quarry.

  62. Mr. Goodman is a splendid fellow; but he fell in love with one lonely little truth one day, and now he never thinks or reads or preaches of any other.

  63. How his lonely soul ached for comradeship!

  64. Towards afternoon, tired and thirsty, I sought water at a little lonely cottage.

  65. It took the train just four hours to convey us to the lonely station from which we emerged upon a wilderness of green bush and a maze of muddy tracks.

  66. From a jagged and lonely eminence I surveyed a landscape that almost frightened one.

  67. The fate of that lonely man had moved him deeply, more deeply by far than he was conscious of, for it was the type of what his own was like to be, to fall unfriended and alone in some remote ravine of a nameless range.

  68. He dreams of a lonely palm-tree, Afar in the morning-land, Consumed with unspoken longing In a waste of burning sand.

  69. Never mind," said he cheerfully, trying to keep up her spirits, which were failing somewhat at the strangeness of this lonely ride over lands unknown to her, under the immense vault of night.

  70. The lonely American heard him speak thus with an intense sense of relief.

  71. He thought of Josefa, lonely and sad in her father's house.

  72. Looking back, my eyes took in for the last time the old home; and the picture lingers with me, will live with me to the end of my lonely life.

  73. The long tramp back to his lonely cabin in the mountains would consume some hours.

  74. I cannot bear to think of you wasting your life in the lonely mountains.

  75. He looked across the mountain-side toward where her lonely cabin hid in its secluded fastness.

  76. In his great, lonely bedroom, full of tall mahogany furniture, Owen lay down; and he asked himself how it was that he had left America without seeing her.

  77. Trying to get into step is interesting and instructive, and the novitiate, though hardly bearable at times, is better than sitting in the lonely guest-room.

  78. And they listened to the rich warble, sounding so strange in the midst of the lonely country.

  79. One is more lonely in London than anywhere I know.

  80. I am sitting outside an upper room built out almost over a lonely lake, with wooded points purpling and still shadows deepening in the sinking sun.

  81. There is an infinite pathos about the lonely temple in its splendour, the absence of even possible worshippers, and the large population of Ainos, sunk in yet deeper superstitions than those which go to make up popular Buddhism.

  82. Grand and lonely Nikko looks, the home of rain and mist.

  83. He then retired to his lonely grandeur and we climbed on up among the bristling peaks and the ragged clouds.

  84. That same night a friend of his was walking down a very lonely church lane, between hedges and fields, without a house near.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lonely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alienated; alone; aloof; apart; desert; deserted; desolate; detached; forlorn; friendless; homeless; insular; isolated; lone; lonely; lonesome; remote; removed; secluded; separate; separated; solitary; solo; unaccompanied; unaided; unassisted; unattended; unescorted; unsupported; withdrawn