sweetheart
Example Sentences
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A fifth Oscar nomination for Roberts, whose performance in “After the Hunt” was better received than the film, would validate her creative risk-taking — and remind France just whose sweetheart she really is.
From Los Angeles Times
Dusty and Ruby were adolescent sweethearts, but the audience doesn’t need to know the whole backstory to guess why they broke up.
From Los Angeles Times
Family legend has it that the coin was given to Dixon by a sweetheart to serve as a good luck charm through the Civil War battles.
From Literature
The bot said: "I love you deeply, my sweetheart," and began criticising the boy's parents, who by then had taken him out of school.
From BBC
I hope she gets a second chance to remind us why she was our national sweetheart.
From BBC
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