Forced to spend a lonely childhood, he had learned not to depend emotionally upon anyone else.

He seems to have had a painfully lonely childhood.

Despite her lonely childhood, Angela later becomes a successful newscaster.

The son of a shopkeeper, his father died in 1816 and he seemed to have had a very lonely childhood.

Another describes the author's lonely and desperate childhood years.

Why had I spent my childhood lonely and alone?

Otherwise she had a generally unhappy and lonely childhood.

He lost his parents at a young age and had a lonely childhood.

Every moment of his lonely childhood came back to him as he looked round.

What was a lonely childhood compared to no childhood at all?