aching heart

Example Sentences

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But it is Janis who gives this melodrama its soaring, aching heart, and at every moment she exudes a radiance that is both bracingly down-to-earth and positively otherworldly.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2021

I spent middle school alone with an anxious, aching heart.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2019

“I stand before you with an aching heart, a heart that aches for Cpl. Ballard, his wife, his daughter, his family, a heart that aches for the Delaware State Police who served with him.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2017

My dreams of democracy have vanished with an aching heart.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2014

The same hostile roof now again rose before me: my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë