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 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
If that’s the case, the two adults involved have likely decided on this course of action, and your aching heart is not going to change that.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2013
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
