sweetheart

Example Sentences

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He married his college sweetheart, with whom he would have triplet sons, and joined Exxon as a research engineer in Tulsa, Okla., in 1963.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

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

From BBC • May 8, 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

She learned only that he’d been a high school sweetheart who was long gone.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel