sweetheart

Example Sentences

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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

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

The 41-year-old is raising money for charity in memory of his childhood sweetheart, Anneka, who was 33 when she died in 2019.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Now that her children are grown, Kaczmarek has recently entered a new phase of life, newly married to her high school sweetheart, with whom she reconnected during their 50th high school reunion.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The sixteen-year-old boy who won the second Quarter Quell must have had people he loved — family, friends, a sweetheart maybe—that he fought to get back to.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins