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Example Sentences

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He had toiled at car washes the whole time — crouching to scrub tires, stretching to dry roofs and returning home each night with aching heels and knots in his neck.

From Los Angeles Times

Though I wasn’t sure how much we’d accomplish in just an hour, my aim improved quickly and my arms started aching long before the lesson was over.

From Los Angeles Times

She emerges to ear-splitting screams, in a floral-print dress and towering heels, smouldering through the achingly cool A&W, before segueing into the ethereal Young and Beautiful.

From BBC

The title is a plain-spoken survivor’s lament, ostensibly about living through a time of environmental collapse: “I don’t want to be witness,” Anohni wails, “seeing all of this duress, aching of our world.”

From New York Times

He swears by its healing power for aching joints.

From Los Angeles Times