Example Sentences

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Something in Montaigne’s voice, the particular texture of its introspection, opened a vein that had been aching to pop.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2014

The Deseret News, which had been aching to even the score with the Tribune,* knew just how to react: it plastered self-congratulations all over the paper.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard lump of unhappiness and resentment that had been aching in Sally’s throat since Courtney Barr had begun to speak melted in tears.

From Girl Alone by Austin, Anne

"No she warn't, either," said the landlady, who for some minutes had been aching to speak.

From The English Orphans by Holmes, Mary Jane

The girl was so manifestly gratified by the question that I saw she had been aching to have me ask it.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark