I left by the coffeeshop door and walked down a hill to where the last, loneliest reach of Puget Sound died and decomposed against a line of disused wharves.

The great ships which plied the lonely reaches between the planets were simply not fast enough.

On the long, lonely reaches between sparse settlements, once you have finished your novel and written your postcards, there is little else to do but pick a fight with your neighbour.

Oh yes, he watched them in the cold and lonely reaches of the night.

Shortly after its completion, his apartment house was as tall as anything else on Central Park West, especially on its lonely upper reaches.

Or he might, for a time, feel again the sweet quiet of the long watches on the lonely reaches between the planets.

They had drifted away, during the night, into the vast and lonely reaches of the Weddell Sea.

In the swiftly dying light, the snow devils seemed like spirits, cold ghosts roaming the lonely reaches of the top of the world.

There she joined the Barrier Forces, Pacific Fleet, to strengthen America's warning system in the vast and lonely reaches of the Pacific.

The Belt, for all its lonely reaches - or because of them - was as neighbourly as a village.