sweetheart
Example Sentences
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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
His campaign website notes that he is married to his college sweetheart and asserts that the 2020 election was stolen.
From New York Times
His magnificently intimidating elephant may weigh almost four tons and stand nearly 10 feet tall, but “she is a sweetheart,” assured Mr. Aon.
From New York Times
An early marriage to Barbara Edwards, his high school sweetheart, ended in divorce.
From Washington Post
The sweetheart deals include trade-offs to developers to build tall tenement housing structures on the condition that they add more affordable housing.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
