sweetheart

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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

Nottingham Crown Court heard Fox married his "childhood sweetheart" while in a coma in hospital before he died.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Family legend has it that the coin was given to Dixon by a sweetheart to serve as a good luck charm through the Civil War battles.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler