sweetheart

Example Sentences

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He married his college sweetheart, with whom he would have triplet sons, and joined Exxon as a research engineer in Tulsa, Okla., in 1963.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Williams eventually married Ruick, his high school sweetheart and mother of his three children.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

The example is from Ozu’s 1929 “Days of Youth,” in which a suitor gets paint on his hand, knows it, and gets panicky trying to hide it from his would-be sweetheart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

"I'd marry him again if I could, he's still my sweetheart," she told The Guardian in 2022.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

“You do not want to have a sweetheart, Lupita?”

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty