ache
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"It's tough work... the hardest part is carrying the seaweed back. It's very heavy and your shoulders ache afterwards."
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Though the ache of nostalgia reverberates throughout, the songs remain intensely present and vulnerable in their reckoning with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Good TV is the product of many hands working harmoniously to merge visuals, writing and performance into stories that breathe, laugh and ache along with you.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Arnaldi described how he became ill on Thursday night, waking up with stomach ache at about 1am.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
But the only remnant left was the burning ache in my throat and the stench of spent gunpowder and swampy water muddling in my nostrils.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Others will experience mild symptoms such as fever, body aches and nausea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The researchers emphasized that their work focuses only on serious muscle disorders that result in hospital admission or death, not the milder muscle aches and pains that some people experience.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Her body aches, she's sensitive to light and sound, and everything feels too much.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Mulligan considered the aches, pains and blisters a small price for the “mingled sensations of camaraderie, achievement and wonder at Manhattan’s astonishing array of sights.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
It feels like it is shaking something inside of me, something that aches.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
She wrote that her heart ached most looking at a poster her three children made when they were young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Before Edward and Bella took over the world, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” viewers ached for David Boreanaz’s Angel and James Marsters’ Spike, centuries-old bros who fall for a very special high school blonde.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Those ached more than stung and left me completely voiceless for the following 24 hours.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
During the workshops Rice says her hands cramped, her back hurt and her feet ached.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
My knees hurt, my heart hurt, and my arms ached.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
The morning after losing to Federer, an aching Willis limped to the shower at 4:30am to get ready for an interview on ITV's Good Morning Britain.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Injuries and exhaustion have him aching to retire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
My feet were still aching when I boarded my flight home the next day.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
In the morning—before my aching knee and bulging blisters relegated my saunter to a limp—a 32-mile walk around Manhattan sounded like a good way to spend the first Saturday in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
By the time he reached the library, his legs were aching and he was gasping for air.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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