ache

Example Sentences

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"We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder. Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home."

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

“Though our hearts ache, we take comfort in God’s promise and in knowing he is finally at peace,” Mary Cosby wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Put another way, the artworks in “Duet” express an age-old ache: to remember.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The audience has been steadily aging as well, feeling every ache that the decade between the show’s first season and the present has inflicted.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025

It was still light, but I knew by the ache in my stomach that it was long past suppertime.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom