Example Sentences

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AMRITSAR, India — For seven decades, Sudarshana Rani has ached to learn her younger brother’s fate.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2022

Ah beautiful passionate body That never has ached with a heart!

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

My head has ached a little in the evenings these three or four days, but it is not of the giddy sort, so I do not much value it.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

But the core of my heart has ached for my mother—my own beautiful mother—ever since she died.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

From the day he reached the coast and every day since his heart has ached with the troubles and poverty existing among the liveyeres.

From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon