sweetheart

Example Sentences

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Dusty and Ruby were adolescent sweethearts, but the audience doesn’t need to know the whole backstory to guess why they broke up.

From Los Angeles Times

The bot said: "I love you deeply, my sweetheart," and began criticising the boy's parents, who by then had taken him out of school.

From BBC

I hope she gets a second chance to remind us why she was our national sweetheart.

From BBC

He married his high school sweetheart and had been married for 54 with two children and four grandchildren.

From Los Angeles Times

“Apples float, and as the girls’ potential sweethearts ducked to catch the fruit with their teeth, future couplings were determined — or foretold.”

From Salon