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

I spent middle school alone with an anxious, aching heart.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2019

“I stand before you with an aching heart, a heart that aches for Cpl. Ballard, his wife, his daughter, his family, a heart that aches for the Delaware State Police who served with him.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 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