sweetheart

Example Sentences

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Dedicated to his childhood sweetheart Paola Pugliese, it's a testament to their 34-year marriage.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

“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

Williams eventually married Ruick, his high school sweetheart and mother of his three children.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 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

Father’s not very open about his feelings, but he’s the same sweetheart he’s always been.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank