sweetheart

Example Sentences

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“You would never think that America’s sweetheart would be so brilliant as this extremely chilly, withholding suburban housewife,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The example is from Ozu’s 1929 “Days of Youth,” in which a suitor gets paint on his hand, knows it, and gets panicky trying to hide it from his would-be sweetheart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The 41-year-old is raising money for charity in memory of his childhood sweetheart, Anneka, who was 33 when she died in 2019.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

He had two sons from his first marriage to his high school sweetheart Dianne Holechek, which lasted 30 years, and a son and a daughter with his second wife Gena O'Kelley.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Pat, a vivacious college beauty queen just two months graduated from Virginia State College, was marrying her college sweetheart, a young army corporal named Walter Kane.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly