sweetheart

Example Sentences

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Ashleigh Stanley did not bother with make-up when she tied the knot with childhood sweetheart Jake Stanley, 29, at Llanerch Vineyard in Hensol, Vale of Glamorgan.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

She married her college sweetheart Larry King in 1965 and they divorced in 1987.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

“You would never think that America’s sweetheart would be so brilliant as this extremely chilly, withholding suburban housewife,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

She had entered college with dreams of becoming a lawyer, but had set aside that vision to marry her high-school sweetheart and raise children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“What in the world are you talking about, sweetheart? What is this? Who’s this Zooey?”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger