aching heart

Example Sentences

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My mistake was that instead of indulging in a series of sloppy rebounds to recalibrate my aching heart, I threw myself headlong into a new career writing about global warming.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023

“My aching heart is shattered into little pieces and beyond repair,” Eileen Rosenberg, whose daughter, Malky Weisz, was killed, said in court on Thursday.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022

The point guard also was managing an aching heart, as Tuesday would’ve been the 23rd birthday of his late sister, Chyna, who was killed in a single-car accident on April 15.

From Washington Times • May 3, 2017

If that’s the case, the two adults involved have likely decided on this course of action, and your aching heart is not going to change that.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2013

The same hostile roof now again rose before me: my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë