How To Use Lonely In A Sentence

  • She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
  • The lonely old man was much to be pitied by all of us.
  • The creak of the wooden pontoon was such a sad, lonely sound.
  • Among the most desolate sandhills you may find in July acres of wax-white pyrola – like lilies of the valley splashed with pink – covering the plains between the lonely ridges of harsh, grey grass. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • This was the only way a kindred soul could recognise you, saving you from a lonely existence.
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  • I used to indulge in lonely debauches, on nights when I knew my crew was going to sleep ashore. Chapter 11
  • It might have been her outpouring of love and grief, it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals, the length of her lonely vigil on the mountain, or a combination of these.
  • A glance at any probate casebook will demonstrate how often solicitous distant relatives, keen to do fetching and carrying as well as to sort out troublesome financial affairs, show up in the declining years of lonely old people.
  • Tell her how lonely you feel and ask how you can revive her interest. The Sun
  • These are all lonely, arguably damaged people, and once you get past the silliness it's all rather crushingly sad. TV highlights 10/08/201: Timothy Spall: Back At Sea | The Sopranos | Who Do You Think You Are? | 24 Hours in A&E | Forbidden Love
  • The Lonely Sailor from Pete Barnstrom of Left Foot Red Video features a variety of animation techniques, as Mistah Pete says, “cel animation, stop-frame, some keyframe bidness…pretty much every kind of animation I know.” Luminaria: ‘Millie and Lucy’ and ‘The Lonely Sailor’ | Missions Unknown
  • He can turn the state of lonely self-loathing into a veritable inferno of seething threats, fans, mockers, competitors.
  • They went to a lonely place in the mountains.
  • Instead, they depicted the lonely troops in real time, trudging to the next trench in the torn up countryside of an unfamiliar country. Smithsonian Mag
  • Behind her cheerful facade , she's a really lonely person.
  • This finding came about because of one lonely air quality monitor near the cowtown area of western Pinal County, nearly 40 miles and across the mountains from downtown Phoenix," he said. Los Angeles Tops Nation In Air Polution
  • The lonely old lady filled up the time between supper and retiring with solitaire.
  • Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
  • Liverpool can be a lonely place on a Saturday night, and this is only Thursday morning.
  • She seemed to exist in a rarefied air of lonely but enigmatic beauty. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sam was very lonely when he first moved to New York. It can also describe places or activities that make you feel lonely:a lonely house.
  • There was the Embarcadero with its numbered piers stretching out into the ocean, just like on my Lonely Planet map, and in the middle, the crosshatched pattern of streets snapped to a perfect grid. Nique sa mère
  • Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient ...
  • Coffee is lonely without cups. I am lonely without you.
  • The man always remember, lonely life of every man, as I kept thinking of you!
  • The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban. The Old Front Line
  • He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang, 'We Can Work it Out' into the answerphone. U.K. Inquiry Hears Heather Mills's Phone-Hack Claims
  • Now he is fighting a lonely battle. Times, Sunday Times
  • He relives his childhood as a lonely youth whose only human contact seems to be his parents.
  • They remind you of a bunch of schoolboys wandering down a lonely road, kicking a ball along.
  • Their still sleek coats show that these are not tough strays but pets, unsuited to the lonely arts of survival. Times, Sunday Times
  • Getting acclimatized to life in Glasgow was tough at first; even after all these years away he still gets lonely and homesick.
  • With the leaving of the cars, East Hampton transformed from the rarified vacationland it had been, to just another lonely and desolate, Long Island small town. Jack Hannibal: Running on Clouds
  • In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
  • It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.
  • In a complex of lonely and socially clumsy bachelors, disheartened by too many rejections, she was news.
  • Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life. April 2007
  • Two lonely souls brought together by happy coincidence? The Sun
  • He felt lonely after he buried his good friend.
  • I wonder what a semi would be doing out on this lonely road, then I recognize it as a stock truck.
  • Last, in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, another profoundly antilibertarian decision, the Supreme Court held over the lonely dissent of John Marshall Harlan, that the broad police power of southern states could allow them to force segregation in public transportation and public schools, and impose antimiscegenation laws. Rand Paul's Wrong Answer
  • Instead she spent lonely hours at home, scared that she may never hear again.
  • However, most of the film occurs in Spider's mind and memory, as he relives his childhood as a lonely youth whose only human contact seems to be his parents.
  • Itself is a lonely, but also make you feel lonely antidote.
  • Terry is a sad, lonely, twitchy, uptight, neurotic, shy, and pathetic man.
  • No longer is it the lonely haunted place with alleys and dark doorways ready to hide the criminal and the sleuth.
  • I was marooned on a lonely country road.
  • Seeing him sat there all alone like that was kind of sad - he looked so lonely and forlorn.
  • She gets lonely now that all the kids have left home.
  • Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
  • John is a lonely gay man with a father fixation and a forbearing best friend (played by John Cardone with impish charm) who worries about the approach of middle age in the form of his 40th birthday.
  • The food was not divine but it was manna for a lonely man.
  • Do not allow yourself the comfort of an easy road, a road that is devoid of risk and genuine inspiration, because one day all too soon, you're going to wake up in a room that smells of formaldehyde -- a urinous, lonely room with floral-print wallpaper and a window that looks out on a solitary bare oak tree. Brad Listi: Unsolicited Advice
  • Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • That she is also lonely and unloved, except by her arthritic mother, is a nice ironic counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
  • Being lonely and afraid allowed Robinson Crusoe to fill his desire for company by allowing God into his life through his nightly readings of the Bible.
  • Lonely teenage misfits with unconventional looks would have their personality revealed to everyone, leading to true love.
  • Some may opt for a very plain style with only a ladder for access and a lonely light bulb for company.
  • And maybe some people will join because they feel lonely and want to be part of a group that treats them kindly and with respect.
  • On the way home from the gare, I decided to positiver: to not focus on my aunt and uncle's absence, rather to turn the lonely ride into a Sunday drive (opting for the scenic and free route nationale instead of the autoroute). Kindness of strangers
  • I desperately needed something to occupy me during those long[Sentencedict], lonely nights.
  • I wish you could have a number one and be on top of the world, but you've heard the term lonely at the top. CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2006
  • Unremarkably, they were exactly as you'd expect trolls to be: needy, lonely, sad, angry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The streets are deserted, their emptiness emphasized by the lonely sound of the wind.
  • There was nothing between them and the frozen south; just the ocean, cold, limitless, patrolled by the lonely birds. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • A wolf, likes peripatetic wandering around lonely and prefers listening to the song.
  • He looked lonely, unloved and timid. Times, Sunday Times
  • The old illustrator never let his pupils fall for the pathetic fallacy, that empty barrels are lonely.
  • I miss you not because of my loneliness but I do feel lonely when I miss you. Only when I miss you deeply I feel so lonely.
  • The audience get to spy on the activities of the guests and staff - some of them lonely, some of them deviant, some of them rompingly exhibitionist. Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • Once, in the cold noon of a lovely day of frost, when the lightest step crackled with the breaking of multitudinous crystals, when the trees were fringed with furry white, and the old spider-webs glimmered like filigrane of fairy silver, they met on a lonely country-road. St. George and St. Michael
  • I'm not perfect but I'm also not emotionally crippled or lonely.
  • To forgive is not to forget, nor remit, but let it go; to be lonely is not becoz u have no friends, but no one is living in ur heart.
  • While several have received the care and support that they need, many others have died on the streets, uncared for, lonely, abused and forgotten…
  • The man always remember,lonely life of every man,as i kept thinking of you!
  • Come to an end only lonely melancholy is a taste of life.
  • Heinz has made a habit of posing playful questions on its ketchup bottles “Are your french fries lonely?” and the next one may be a stumper: “Guess what my bottle is made of?” A new spin on the Heinz ketchup bottle
  • His first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.
  • Meggie saw it as a chance to reciprocate for those lonely Queensland years, and Anne saw it as salvation. THE THORN BIRDS
  • But it is only through dialogue, through genuine human engagement, that one can really understand what alonely person's condition really is. Loneliness study: Help! I need somebody
  • Soledad It's a keeping for the lonely Since the day that you were gone.
  • Tell her how lonely you feel and ask how you can revive her interest. The Sun
  • Iou for being so patient, the lonely nights waiting.
  • He has also helped guide him through a meandering journey that has included several demotions to and call-ups from the minors and a lonely rehabilitation stint in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Life of a Baseball Interpreter
  • He fled after three weeks, hating his lonely lodgings and missing all the fun of London. Times, Sunday Times
  • Have you ever let me not alone, you make me more lonely.
  • If Brit-pop's in fact dead, there's a nation of lonely-hearted saps ready to pick up the pieces of shattered hearts from the rainy country and lead a world of crybabies to salvation.
  • She is a sad, lonely career girl whose financial precariousness makes her a highly suggestible young lady who will clearly do almost anything for a sawbuck.
  • He held them silent with ghastly stories of the "Yo-hoes" on Monomoy Beach, that mock and terrify lonely clam-diggers; of sand-walkers and dune-haunters who were never properly buried; of hidden treasure on Fire Island guarded by the spirits of Kidd's men; of ships that sailed in the fog straight over Captains Courageous
  • A lot of people who come feel lonely and homesick and want to be hugged. The Sun
  • Less historical than hysterical, "The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project" is a movie-within-a-movie shot in frequently abstract black-and-white — "arty-farty," as one character describes her cinematic preference — about a lonely office worker's effort to make a short film with the help of a more established director (the film's actual director, Srinivas Sunderrajan). Kids Take Over the School
  • Who would like to strike out to this lonely river - bank to pick up a falling leaf?
  • The price of heating and food means many elderly live a cold, lonely and hungry life. The Sun
  • Donaldson's lucid chording inspires a sweetly poignant reading of ‘Lonely Woman’, while the opening of ‘Peace’ features a meltingly gorgeous statement on alto, accompanied only by Dave Green's ever thoughtful bass.
  • GPs are seeing up to ten patients a day who are lonely rather than ill, according to research. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness {sic}, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl. Fanny Herself
  • They were, and still are, the gods of geek rock, and their songs have become anthems for the alienated, awkward, and lonely.
  • He's gonna get lonely real quick and end up with a lot of females who prefer to just be friends.
  • Midnight: the witching hour, in this empty, godforsaken, lonely place. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • The man always remember, lonely life of every man, as I kept thinking of you!
  • Two lonely souls brought together by happy coincidence? The Sun
  • I like a lonely puppet, lost and I follow like a shadow another puppet, never show will not move, was abandoned in the corner of dusty, alone in despair, in a desperate sad, then continue to missing you.
  • She was desperately lonely at school.
  • Pale moonlight, I declare lonely and shadow.
  • Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
  • Those handful of days were long enough to realize how lonely an old timer could truly be.
  • But seeing my students and other young people narcotized with iPads and cell phones in a state in which they are oblivious to the human beings around them, makes me realize how lonely they are, trying to find a way in texting and phoning to substitute remote communication for intimacy. Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Japan and Teaching for the Future
  • With crew members leading a lonely existence and having to stay away from their family for days together, they are tempted to give in to the pleasures of the flesh.
  • Doubtless, it was by half-unconscious, automatic motions of her hands, that this heavy-hearted one performed the final office for Felipe, and planted a rude cross of withered sticks -- no green ones might be had -- at the head of that lonely grave, where rested now in lasting un-complaint and quiet haven he whom untranquil seas had overthrown. The Piazza Tales
  • You can be married and still be plenty lonely.
  • Deal clincher It's impossible to be lonely or homesick here. Times, Sunday Times
  • Working as a writer can be a very lonely existence.
  • In 2006's Lonely Planet, Rosefeldt himself plays a bandana-wearing backpacker on an impossible quest for the authentic Indian experience, journeying from the desert through Mumbai's slums and on to a Bollywood movie set over and over again. Artist of the week 110: Julian Rosefeldt
  • It's an accessible depiction of a lonely cyborg and his dog and Oshii allows you to savour every detail.
  • Forget dating agencies and lonely hearts ads, though - the lovelorn lass turned to Britain's new Freedom of Information Act to try to bag an arresting bachelor.
  • The downturn has its roots in the real estate frenzy that turned lonely Nevada ranches into suburban ranch homes and swampland in Florida into condominiums.
  • He trudged home feeling lonely and let down.
  • Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? Haruki Murakami 
  • I am a very lonely at the time the children will look up to the sky, watching the sun, watching the big moon, hope to see the eyes of the neck pain, choking with tears. This is true, children do not lie.
  • I knew he was lonely and terrified about what was happening to his wife of 33 years. The Sun
  • This lovely signorina was kind enough to accompany a lonely old man for an aperitif, Lucci went on. Hollywood Savage
  • Frannie is an English teacher - sexually frustrated and lonely.
  • The man always remember, lonely life of every man, as I kept thinking of you!
  • Knowing these people helps to understand why alcohol is such a boon to the lost and the lonely.
  • A part of the landscape is an interesting phenomenon; in amongst the endless fields, you will find the occasional lonely hill, rising abruptly from the earth and coming to a broad flat top ... utterly alien in that flat land, and upon reflection, very hard to explain. Archive 2010-04-01
  • A person walking down the street, suddenly remind of lonely I love you.
  • She was lonely, and it was decent of the Nawab to have called on her.
  • He lay there for six or seven shortening gasps, while a star, lonely in its solitude, brightened at his zenith. COLDHEART CANYON
  • Monkey-boy Cha-Ka (Saturday Night Live writer and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone) is a beloved weirdo from the show, but in the movie he’s turned into an annoying horndog who is responsible for about half of the movie’s unfortunate stable of pee and poo jokes. “Land of the Lost” has commitment issues » Scene-Stealers
  • He lives in the lonely lands where mighty rivers twist in long reaches between the barren bluffs; where the prairies stretch out into billowy plains of waving grass, girt only by the blue horizon, —plains across whose endless breadth he can steer his course for days and weeks and see neither man to speak to nor hill to break the level; where the glory and the burning splendor of the sunsets kindle the blue vault of heaven and the level brown earth till they merge together in an ocean of flaming fire. Frontier Types
  • I began to feel lost, lonely, then resentful. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tonight another morn for the lonely one is born.
  • He sat next to her, and as she brushed her incredibly long flowing hair out of the way, her lonely but beautiful blue eyes met his deep brown ones.
  • The world is full of very lonely people, and it's safe to assume that a lot of people lurking and talking in online chat rooms are among them.
  • Yet this Saturday night I had the privilege of being present when Suzie McNeil, backed only by drums, bass violin and a lonely electro-acoustic guitar, gave in to the crowd.
  • Tina was sorry for her. She seemed so lonely.
  • Except, the blowy, dark afternoon of Christmas eve, when we were closing early (it was a lonely time---Mr. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
  • 'In a dreary, lonely lab a young female postdoc puts down her pipette to massage her aching latexed hands. Science
  • A solitary viola plucks a lonely, soft F sharp.
  • Is heavy likely is the dark memorial speech lonely.
  • It's about a lonely adolescent called Blakemore and meditates on education, faith and teen friendship in the distant days before the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.Hare denies South Downs is entirely autobiographical and yet Blakemore's absentee father is a sailor, just as Hare's was, and his mother sees education as a tool for creating a secure adult life. David Hare: 'It's absurd, but I feel insecure'
  • Being England captain in any sport can be a lonely place and he always seems to be lauded with grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
  • Club, a lovelooking leapgirl, all all alonely, Gentia Gemma of the Finnegans Wake
  • -- and the echo rose in unnumbered voices of lonely lips, toned with wondrous gratitude, "Free, Free, Free! A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln
  • In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
  • She compared that with having to live independently, often feeling lonely and unloved. Know Your Own Mind
  • Down underneath New York City, in a network of tunnels and caverns, rat-populated, perspiring, rumbling, lonely, I was troubled, as I have often been troubled, by these alarums of conscience.
  • Age UK also run a befriending service, providing companionship and conversation for the lonely elderly. The Sun
  • He is going to end up a lonely old man whose kids only call him on holidays because they feel like they have to.
  • They encounter a ship in a lonely solar system, but through a freak mischance, are bonded to the other ship on a path towards the system's star. REVIEW: The World Turned Upside Down edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen
  • Perhaps she felt the terrible losses of the war more than most because her own childhood had been lonely. The English Civil War: A People's History
  • Such a leper is a lonely outcast, living in constant fear of discovery and slowly and surely rotting away. Chapter 7
  • I feel lonely, a wanderer discovering a lost civilization.
  • The waterway was lonely ? and who ever heard of a canalblock?
  • Someone makes me comfortable, so I want to rely on him; while another one makes me feel lonely, so I want to embrace him.
  • Living as she is was miserable and lonely with no friends or loved ones to care about her.
  • My diagnosis is bored, lonely and unemployed. The Sun
  • The downturn has its roots in the real estate frenzy that turned lonely Nevada ranches into suburban ranch homes and swampland in Florida into condominiums.
  • Now he is fighting a lonely battle. Times, Sunday Times
  • As far back as 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court said, "Liberty of the press is the right of the lonely pamphleteer ... as much as of the large metropolitan publisher.
  • You are vulnerable because you are lonely and crave attention. The Sun
  • Afterward we had one last drive around the rock before heading back to the lonely highway.
  • I like solitude, but it is not un-lonely; at least I have drink to comfort me, namu nihonshu nyorai. Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Nyorai
  • You dragged me across the earldom because you were lonely?
  • Some feel lonely and depressed, while others may become irrationally anxious or guilty.
  • They are two lost and lonely souls who find each other - and still remain lost. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't get lonely now because I make the effort to see people.
  • In most of our minds, he is a withdrawn, lonely figure, brave but enigmatic - scarcely to be compared with his rival, who was combative, a drinker and something of a wencher.
  • There is nothing heroic about sitting in a small, cold room in the depths of winter as you get through your eight or ten hour shift as part of a lonely factory occupation.
  • Is the man who some called the sexiest guy on the planet lonely? CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2009
  • Even worse, it wasn't unheard of for foreign expatriates or discharged soldiers to form bands of brigands that terrorized lonely travelers.
  • Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age.
  • The woman's later life is described as lonely and poverty-stricken.
  • I'm not going to die old and lonely, never loving anyone else other than her.
  • he played uncle to lonely students
  • Marty (1955)- Approaching his middle years, lonely, overweight butcher Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine) lives with his mother and has given up on love, until one day he meets plain but warm-hearted schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair). John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance
  • Robinson Crusoe, on his lonely island, was a capitalist as well as a laborer and a land-holder. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
  • It was a lonely and unhappy time. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
  • All bepatched and coiled asleep in his lonely lava den among the mountains, he looked, they say, as a heaped drift of withered leaves, torn from autumn trees, and so left in some hidden nook by the whirling halt for an instant of a fierce night-wind, which then ruthlessly sweeps on, somewhere else to repeat the capricious act. The Piazza Tales
  • When she wasn't lustfully nuzzling up to him, wanting to make love, she was spending her time in the Lonely Place, or at least it seemed that way at times.
  • I'd rather face up to the finality and get on with my life, lonely or not, for as long as it lasts.
  • Setting up you own business can be very satisfying and fulfilling, but it can be very lonely and isolating and is very hard work.
  • Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. William Faulkner 
  • But I think we can be a disconnected, impatient and lonely people.
  • He was without kith or kin, a lonely old man, embittered and pessimistic, fighting vermin the while and looking at Garibaldi, Engels, and Dan Burns gazing down at him from the blood-bespattered walls. DAN CULLEN, DOCKER
  • A man who sits on his own in a crowded cafe looking at the froth on his cappuccino looks lonely. Times, Sunday Times
  • He wished that he could be like other children instead of pursuing his lonely predestined path.
  • Two lonely souls brought together by happy coincidence? The Sun
  • But for a lonely night in need of some corny sentiment, this is some fluffy candy that just might fill.
  • The so-called love, just feel lonely pastime.
  • I would imagine she's quite lonely living on her own.
  • In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
  • Has one kind to clamor, after things quiet down, can let the lonely sublimation?
  • Oblivious to his hectic surroundings, the man carried on with his lonely saunter until he reached an uncharacteristically quiet corner of the courtyard void of any activity.
  • He placed a lonely hearts ad in a magazine.
  • Although the journey was a long and lonely one, Tumalo pushed on.
  • The large house was silent and lonely.
  • Where I see a politician bestriding the British political scene, he sees a lonely figure, in constant danger of a painstaking alliance fracturing apart.
  • I have an idea for a short story that could develop...and I have an idea for a fascinating character based on a real person who I'd love to write into a book...a conflict-engineering virus of a person, a manipulator, insinuator, psychic bottom-feeder, a lonely monster whose elastic mind has stretched too far and is starting to unravel... NaNoWriMo
  • He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated, and very lonely.

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