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

“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

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

He had two sons from his first marriage to his high school sweetheart Dianne Holechek, which lasted 30 years, and a son and a daughter with his second wife Gena O'Kelley.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Laura went to her and, soon enough, a string of negotiations followed: “Do you want this one, sweetheart? The yellow or the blue or the red? Which do you want?”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie