adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lonely hearts column British English (= with advertisements for a new lover or friend )
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Some men place advertisements in the lonely hearts columns.
a lonely/solitary existence (= without anyone else with you )
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Male bears live a mostly solitary existence, away from the female and cubs.
desperately unhappy/lonely/worried etc
lonely hearts
lonely
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He had no brothers or sisters and a lonely childhood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
desperately
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It was a desperately lonely time.
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Back-country life in the cabins was desperately lonely , harsh, and violent.
how
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I would later be shocked to find how lonely my father was inside his own life.
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Barb knew firsthand how lonely that first year could be.
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From his manner and general reaction, however, I realized how lonely a figure he was.
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I can't tell you how lonely it feels, it really does.
so
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Poor little thing, she would be feeling so lonely and frightened, and Jean's kind heart went out to her.
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I had never felt so lonely .
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It's just that I get so lonely sometimes.
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I mean Micky just seemed so nice, so friendly and, in a strange way, so lonely .
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I am so lonely without you, my darling!
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The other Girls would talk about their families and homes which made her feel so lonely .
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As I said before, this was probably because he was so lonely .
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I've never felt so lonely in my life.
very
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But I felt very lonely and a little afraid.
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I suppose you must be very lonely .
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Q I am terribly shy and as a result, very lonely .
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This tiny camp in the wilderness looked very lonely , very vulnerable to the forces of nature ranged silently around it.
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It was more than quiet-it was deserted and very lonely .
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Those who want to close ranks in this fashion will find themselves very lonely , however.
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It was very lonely being bad.
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In the parking lot, surrounded by hundreds of green-clothed men milling around Greyhound buses, I felt very lonely .
■ NOUN
country
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Such entreaties to passing travellers were not infrequent in lonely country at the time.
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And out there in the darkness of that lonely country road it wasn't much.
existence
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His had been an isolated and lonely existence , despite the people perpetually at his side.
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Here someday my lonely existence will be filled with laughter.
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They live out their lonely existence entirely within the individual sufferer.
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Lost in the world of imagination, I forgot my sad, lonely existence for a while, and was happy.
heart
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He met Dominique through a lonely hearts ad.
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I have been tempted by the lonely hearts advertisements in selected journals.
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He sat at his desk and took out the lonely hearts advert he had placed in the magazine a few months before.
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How would you describe yourself in a lonely hearts ad?
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They talked about books, the theatre, cinema, where they lived, lonely hearts columns.
life
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It's better to keep trying to find love than to live a lonely life .
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That's why he lived a lonely life and locked all his doors so carefully.
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It is a hard, lonely life .
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I tried to imagine why he lived such a quiet and lonely life in this far-off place.
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I saw what a cold, lonely life awaited me in this country.
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This experience of a tight community of shared aspiration is rare in a novelist's lonely life .
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Her longing for death, as a result of a lonely life without her lover.
man
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Eliot was a lonely man , and Hayward was the only single person he knew with whom he could share a flat.
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He is a big, thick, lonely man about whom people tell stories.
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What a lonely man he is, she thought.
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Liquor is a terrible temptation to lonely men cut off from their wives, or fighting for success they can not attain.
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A few lonely men nursing a half-empty glass patted the floor in time to the music.
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In it there lived a lonely man .
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The Major was a lonely man .
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The general was a lonely man in a lonely job and he had few people in whom he could confide.
night
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The build up to their meeting with its false starts and lonely nights is the best part of this charming book.
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My power, my money, was payoff for a lot of lonely nights in cookie-cutter hotel rooms.
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Eight months of lonely nights and long days of toil.
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Sometimes we need Valium or Prozac to see us through lonely nights .
people
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Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission, among the lost and lonely people of the inner city.
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There would not be so many lonely people in our land.
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Over the last three years, our volunteers have provided much love and care to many hurt and lonely people .
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In a world of lonely people the demand is inexhaustible.
place
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Women in lonely places are there more in the dark than at any other time of the year.
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Truth be told, the Web is sort of a lonely place .
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It was a wild and lonely place .
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The final third of the old course was a lonely place for runners.
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I could not see the boy, and there was nothing else in that lonely place .
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The disturbance and fear men with guns cause spoils the tranquillity of wild lonely places for both birds and bird watchers.
road
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She glanced into the rear-view mirror, convinced that hers was the only car on this lonely road .
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They remind you of a bunch of schoolboys wandering down a lonely road , kicking a ball along.
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Yet Masterkova proved to be the only one to persist throughout her career on that lonely road .
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Passersby in Los Angeles left snapdragons on the lonely road where Ennis Cosby was slain by an unknown gunman.
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Or she might call them from a telephone box on a lonely road .
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I've got a long lonely road home in front of me.
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I saw no one on the long lonely road home, and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges.
spot
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It was a lonely spot , and no-one would know for a few days.
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They retreated to keep under cover in some dark lonely spot .
stretch
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Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open, footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road.
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Do you have to cross lonely stretches of ground between your home and the bus stop or railway station?
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This time a thirty-year-old schoolteacher cycling home to Hunstanton who had a puncture on a lonely stretch of road.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lonely hearts club/column/ad
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He met Dominique through a lonely hearts ad.
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How would you describe yourself in a lonely hearts ad?
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They talked about books, the theatre, cinema, where they lived, lonely hearts columns.
plough a lonely/lone furrow
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jay was never lonely with Nurse Dees nearby.
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Our neighbor George is a very lonely man.
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She left me at a lonely crossroads.
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Tammy felt very lonely when she first arrived in New York.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Audrey got on well with the other student, and felt that without her she might have been lonely .
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He would never be sure, but for a split second he fancied he saw Hudson watching him, lonely and lost.
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Philip was not allowed to be lonely .
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Studies have consistently reported that the vast majority of older people, approximately 95 percent, never feel lonely .
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To prepare them to go into a world that does seem pretty lonely and unkind and cold.