sweetheart

Example Sentences

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She married her college sweetheart Larry King in 1965 and they divorced in 1987.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Ashleigh Stanley did not bother with make-up when she tied the knot with childhood sweetheart Jake Stanley, 29, at Llanerch Vineyard in Hensol, Vale of Glamorgan.

From BBC • May 19, 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

She had entered college with dreams of becoming a lawyer, but had set aside that vision to marry her high-school sweetheart and raise children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

As it was, he did go to war, and when he returned, his childhood sweetheart had married someone else.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson