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
“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
He had young Baby Kochamma’s aching heart on a leash, bumping behind him, lurching over leaves and small stones.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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