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Example Sentences

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I kept thinking about the quiet, aching gap between who she might have been raised to be and what her life became.

From The Wall Street Journal

As parts of the city smoldered, many turned to Didion’s aching, poetic rendering of a paradise lost.

From Los Angeles Times

Fever, aching limbs and a runny nose -- as winter returns, so too does the flu.

From Science Daily

Most of us are aching not for perfection but for presence.

From Salon

He had toiled at car washes the whole time — crouching to scrub tires, stretching to dry roofs and returning home each night with aching heels and knots in his neck.

From Los Angeles Times