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

“Ni Mi Madre” is an aching heart wrapped in laughter and a long white dress — an offering of understanding and forgiveness, presented on the altar of bruised inheritance.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2021

The point guard also was managing an aching heart, as Tuesday would’ve been the 23rd birthday of his late sister, Chyna, who was killed in a single-car accident on April 15.

From Washington Times • May 3, 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

I would watch them with an aching heart, firmly convinced that they were being duped; but if I had been asked to give them another solution for their problems, I would not have known how.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright