aching heart

Example Sentences

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This proves to be a consistent theme across “Moisturizer,” which often feels like Teasdale’s ode to an aching heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

“My aching heart is shattered into little pieces and beyond repair,” Eileen Rosenberg, whose daughter, Malky Weisz, was killed, said in court on Thursday.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022

“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

If that’s the case, the two adults involved have likely decided on this course of action, and your aching heart is not going to change that.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2013

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