aching heart

Example Sentences

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This proves to be a consistent theme across “Moisturizer,” which often feels like Teasdale’s ode to an aching heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

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

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

I would watch them with an aching heart, firmly convinced that they were being duped; but if I had been asked to give them another solution for their problems, I would not have known how.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright