Use lonely in a sentence
Sentences starting with lonely
- Lonely and delicately sad it all looked, but there was no feeling of loneliness among those who lived the life of the Sagalac. [11]
- Lonely and lofty, it was a world waiting chastely to be peopled! [11]
- Lonely and tenantless enough it seemed. [11]
Sentences ending with lonely
- And all so wild, so lonely! [11]
- The royal standard was not floating from the tower of the castle, and everything was quiet and lonely. [6]
- Blanched in moonlight, the sage yet seemed to hold its hue of purple and was infinitely more wild and lonely. [13]
- Once you said that you had an affection for him --that he was lonely. [9]
- Florette was glad that the work was finished, for restlessness again began to torture her, and the mornings had been so lonely. [10]
- Is the Laughing Tadpole lonely? [5]
- Somehow, the atmosphere of it made him feel apart and lonely. [11]
- When Dennis was not there, he came at first for an hour or two, as if by chance, then for a whole day, because he said he knew I was lonely. [11]
- You live too much alone, and imagination is a bad thing for the lonely. [11]
- He has shown me a side of himself, perhaps, that other men have not seen,--and he is very lonely. [9]
Short sentences using lonely
- The lonely evening seemed endless. [10]
- Shores lonely no longer. [5]
- They would be lonely. [9]
- It was a lonely country. [11]
- Never lonely with her. [11]
- She'll be lonely by-and-by. [11]
- Surely, she will be lonely. [11]
- He is lonely. [9]
- But, lonely? [4]
Sentences containing lonely two or more times
- He is lonely, most lonely since our Davy went away; and troubled, too, for the dangers of that life yonder. [11]
- But I feel lonely, very lonely, in the pages through which I wander. [6]
- Of course, he is lonely, the most lonely being that lives in the midst of our breathing world. [6]
- To sleep by himself, eat by himself, walk by himself--how lonely, how unspeakably lonely! [5]
- Sometimes a fellah feels lonely, and would like to have a nice young woman, to tell her how lonely he feels. [6]
- Ah, it had been lonely, bitterly lonely! [11]
- We ought to be near: yet, yet we are lonely and far apart, and we shall never be nearer or less lonely. [11]
More example sentences with the word lonely in them
- You are lonely, you must be longing for some human fellowship. [6]
- Mentally, I fear, you also are too lonely and too little occupied. [14]
- It is one world, mine is another; and sometimes it is lonely, and the best things are not for me. [11]
- For him the world was suddenly shut out, and he only saw the woods of a late summer's afternoon, a lonely tent--and a woman. [11]
- He was faint with lonely vigils; he was visibly carrying the load of the poor and the despised. [4]
- We're only a wild, lonely border settlement. [13]
- None but those whose lives are lived in lonely places can be so acute, so sensitive to sound. [11]
- There were those who spoke of her wanderings in lonely places as an unsafe exposure. [6]
- Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion--or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange. [6]
- These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent--their desolation is complete. [5]
- Weathered grey cottages were scattered over the landscape, and dark copses of cedars, while oceanward the eye was caught by the gleam of a lighthouse or a lonely sail. [9]
- On this great wedge grim shapes loomed in the mist, uncouth and shadowy and unnatural--a lonely, mysterious Brocken, impossible to human tenantry. [11]
- As he grew weaker and more feeble, what would become of this lonely little creature; poor protector as he was, say that he died--what we be her fate, then? [12]
- Yet, peaceful as we were, it might have puzzled a stranger to see that all of us were armed--armed in this tenantless, lonely wilderness! [11]
- Wasn't it 'cause we was lonely an' loved her we took her? [11]
- O, O, the waving sky, the white sky-- My snow-bird, thou fliest far; O, O the eagle's cry, the wild cry-- My lost love, my lonely star. [11]
- Whatever his trouble was, that face had obscured it in a flash, and the pools of feeling far down in the depths of a lonely nature had been stirred. [11]
- She stopped up,--it was very tempting,--late and later, striving to beguile the lonely night with some employment, till her weak eyes failed to read or to sew, and could only weep in solitude over the dead that were not. [14]
- The new residence was to afford me an opportunity to lead a lonely, quiet life with my mother and my books, which latter, however, were only to be used in moderation. [10]
- But now--now there was the old unschooled simplicity, the unique and lonely personality, the homely soul and body bending to one root-idea, losing themselves in a wave of duty. [11]
- He said he was lonely, it is true, but he said it in a manly tone, and not as if he were repining at the inevitable condition of his devoting himself to that particular branch of science. [6]
- That old life was lonely and primitive, but it had its compensating balance of bright sun, wild animal life, and an air as vivid and virile as ever stirred the veins of man. [11]
- For days he wandered in lonely places, thinking, thinking, thinking --trying to get his bearings. [5]
- He liked to wander dreamily in lonely paths, with his large, dark eyes fixed on the ground. [10]
- Even if she walks the lonely road of life, she has this advantage, that she can whistle to keep her courage up. [4]
- But they were voices and voices only; for they who sang were as unkempt and forceless as the lonely wall which shut them in from the insistent soul of the desert. [11]
- My ghost shall visit you in the smiles of Paradise, and tell your high fame to the minds of that region, which is far more preferable than this lonely cell. [5]
- For hours the Victoire bombarded the lonely rock from the north. [11]
- We had found upon the train from New York a lovely, lonely lady, the wife of one of our most spirited Massachusetts officers, the brave Colonel of the __th Regiment, going to seek her wounded husband at Middletown, a place lying directly in our track. [6]
- A delicacy came upon him, and more and more he withdrew himself to his organ, and to those lofty and lonely places where he could see--and hear--the Golden Pipes boom softly over the valley. [11]
- Her lonely and tragic death--but I will not think of that now. [5]
- Yet it had, too, something of the peace of the lonely graveyard. [11]
- He had promised to take her from the Owl's Nest, after nightfall, for a lonely row upon the water. [10]
- Now she longed to rush after him and beg him to restore the love with which he had hitherto surrounded her--and which the lonely woman had gratefully felt. [10]
- They presently separated to meet at a lonely spot on the river-bank two miles above the village at the favorite hour--which was midnight. [5]
- He then retired to his lonely grandeur and we climbed on up among the bristling peaks and the ragged clouds. [5]
- Mrs. Armour inclined to her going to town for the season, to visit Mrs. Townley, who had thoughtfully written to her, saying that she was very lonely, and begging Mrs. Armour to let her come, if she would. [11]
- It was strange to hear in that lonely waste, a handful of men, bent on a deadly task, singing a low chant of penitence--a Kyrie eleison. [11]
- She had tried to be good, a good mother, living a life unutterably lonely, hard in all that it involved of study, new duty, translation, and burial of primitive emotions. [11]
- He was left to be buried with a stake through his heart in the centre of four lonely roads. [12]
- He took Huck to a lonely place to have a talk with him. [5]
- Do you not tire of this lonely life? [11]
- It's a lonely time of day, this, the evening, when the long night's ahead. [11]
- The thought of throwing it off with his life, as too grievous to be borne, was familiar to his lonely hours, but he rejected it as unworthy of his manhood. [6]
- I went blindly through the woods for hours after the night fell, my horse stumbling and weary, until at length I came to a lonely clearing on the mountain side, and a fierce pack of dogs dashed barking at my horse's heels. [9]
- Nicodemus was given this lonely and ghostly den as a bedchamber. [5]
- And how did this affect Paulus as he climbed the mountain, lonely and proscribed? [10]
- Still another of these young ladies I saw for the first time in an open boat, tossing on the ocean ground-swell, a mile or two from shore, off a lonely island. [6]
- It's too lonely there,--there's nobody to hate since Dick's gone. [6]
- Looking out from the windows of Mont Orgueil Castle, or from the deck of the Imperturbable, he could see--and he could scarce choose but see--the lonely Ecrehos. [11]
- To this day the tiger's head is the lonely part of Jersey; a hundred years ago it was as distant from the Vier Marchi as is Penzance from Covent Garden. [11]
- The lonely spot, the superstition concerning dead bodies, the supposed doom of Gaspard, all ran in his favour. [11]
- The heart of the proud, lonely man only sought a place where it might be permitted to soften; the soldier, bereft of love, needed some nook where he could exercise on others what was denied to himself: "devoted affection. [10]
- The more lonely the place, the more she could be to him. [10]
- The solitude of the Place Vendome was something oppressive; I felt, as I trod its lonely sidewalk, as if I were wandering through Tadmor in the Desert. [6]
- He could see the place now: the lonely, wooden houses, the ramshackle saloon, the ugly, yellow gleam from the street lamps in a line along the glistening pavement; beside him, a towering hill of granite with a real estate sign, "This lot for sale. [9]
- Who is he, The one ye name and tell us that ye serve, Whom ye would call me from my lonely tower To worship with the many-headed throng? [6]
- The thought of the old man lonely and bitter in his room decided her. [9]
- She had turned the night into day, not only to despatch speedily matters which seemed to her to permit of no delay, but even more because, since the battle of Actium, she dreaded the restless hours upon her lonely couch. [10]
- With what majesty the monarch held his lonely state above the level sea! [5]
- Then, instead of the majestic clouds of incense from the threshers, will rise blue spiral wreaths of smoke from the lonely home. [11]
- Indeed, the ruin, the lonely wandering which had been Jean Jacques' portion, had given him that dignity which often comes to those who defy destiny and the blows of angry fate. [11]
- The "rapture on the lonely shore" is agreeable only when you know you can at any moment go home. [4]
- She knocked at the lonely mourner's door and was admitted. [10]
- Ulrich lived in the lonely little palace to which he had retired, avoiding all society, toiling early and late with restless, joyless industry, at a work which pleased him less with every new day. [10]
- Her mother's face, the Judge had noted, was the foreground of a landscape which had lonely shadows. [11]
- The hammering of the infrequent woodpecker, the call of the lonely bird, the drumming of the solitary partridge,--all these sounds do but emphasize the lonesomeness of nature. [4]
- This portion of the Height of Land is a lonely country. [11]
- The picture of the great, lonely house, of the ceremonious dinner which awaited her single presence, gave her an irresistible longing to sit down with these simple, kindly souls. [9]
- Then there was the great house, dark and lonely in its magnificence, over which I roamed until I knew every corner of it. [9]
- The light of the fire showed across the gorge, touching off the far wall of pines with burnished crimson, and huge flickering shadows looked like elusive spirits, attendant on the lonely obsequies. [11]
- The dwarf drove the dogs down a lonely side lane to the village, and came to the shed where lay the uncomely thing he had called brother. [11]
- Guests came from the city, now and again, for week-end visits, and if he ever was restless or lonely he did not show it. [5]
- We change, but the changes are only New forms of the old forms again, We die and some spaces are lonely, But men live in lives of new men. [11]
- He would meet the bereaved, grieving, lonely mourner with a smile on his lips! [10]
- It may be that she pitied the lonely young man. [6]
- In the train that day a passenger told me some more about Boer life out in the lonely veldt. [5]
- The stay in Tennis does not seem to agree with you--you are coughing, and father expected so much benefit to your ailment from the pure moist air, and to Hermon still more from the lonely life here in your society. [10]
- The mail-rider was taciturn, a natural habit for a man who rides alone the year round, over a lonely road, and has nothing whatever to think of. [4]
- There was a strong kind of peace in the valley, and there were so many birds and animals, and the smell of the trees was so fine, that we were not lonely, neither you nor I. [11]
- The lonely waters stretching to the horizon helped to make it so. [11]
- Time and again, strangers were astounded to see a wasted, pale, and woe-worn man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly there an hour, with his ear at a little box, then come sighing down, and wander wearily away. [5]
- The great building stands all by itself, grand and lonely, on a high ground outside the town. [5]
- When you couldn't stand bein' lonely night after night, when you went out on the streets and saw everybody on the way to a good time but you? [9]
- From a lonely spot by the river, Fleda watched the westering gleam until it vanished, her soul alive to the melancholy beauty of it all. [11]
- He, Monsieur Garon, spoke as from a book or out of a library, but this man as from the Invalides, or, since that is anachronistic, from the lonely rock of St. Helena. [11]
- Our scrawny horses splashed across the stream, and we turned to see a gaunt and lonely figure standing apart against the sun, stern and sorrowful. [9]
- Leaving Alexandria and spending the winter on a lonely island in the tropics was an utterly incomprehensible idea. [10]
- There was no sound anywhere save the brawling water or the lonely cry of the flute-bird. [11]
- The body of some poor wretch who had swung upon the gallows, was probably conveyed by night to some lonely dwelling at the outskirts of the village, and there by the light of flaring torches hastily dissected by hands that trembled over the unwonted task. [3]
- But "Portia," as some of the mansion-house people called her, did not happen to awaken the elective affinities of the lonely widower. [6]
- I shall be so lonely when you are away. [9]
- She had been so lonely since he was away? [6]
- Does not a single star seem very lonely to you up there? [6]
- On the other side of the crag was a valley also; but it was lonely and untenanted; and at one flank of The Stone were serried legions of trees. [11]
- A fair, great ship in sight, almost the first we have seen in these weeks of lonely voyaging. [5]
- At any rate, she was lonely without him. [6]
- On the instant she felt so weak and shaken and lonely that she wanted to lean upon some one stronger than herself; as she used to lean against her father, while he sat with one arm round her studying his railway problems. [11]
- As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. [14]
- The bachelor of seventy had been so ill cared for in his lonely, uncomfortable home that her kind heart had urged her to take charge of him. [10]
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