sweetheart

Example Sentences

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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

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

Mr. Zimmerman—a man I’d known since I was five and who knew me from my volunteering at the adoption center for three summers—was a complete sweetheart and winked at me on the way out.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King