aching heart
Example Sentences
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As Miss Adelaide, Wallace avoids caricature, coupling robust comedy with the sense of an aching heart and bringing her roof-raising vocals to her character’s famously adenoidal “Lament.”
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
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
I spent middle school alone with an anxious, aching heart.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2019
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
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
