1
: that aches
an aching back
2
: causing or reflecting distress, deep emotion, or longing
aching country ballads
Examples of aching in a Sentence
another one of those aching country songs about a woman who done him wrong
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Braxton shares an aching need to be vulnerable only to realize by album’s end that such unions can result in horrible betrayal, her words of lament surrounded by swelling, lush orchestration.
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Clarence A. Haynes
july 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Coupled with a story line about digital avatars who seek to replace the humans in whose images they were shaped, the movie possesses an aching sense of oblivion.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Indeed, Macron has zipped furiously across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia all year, negotiating deals on climate, trade, military assistance, and peace, some of it in an effort to fill an aching vacuum left by Washington.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 10 June 2025
Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Clarence A. Haynes
july 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Coupled with a story line about digital avatars who seek to replace the humans in whose images they were shaped, the movie possesses an aching sense of oblivion.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Indeed, Macron has zipped furiously across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia all year, negotiating deals on climate, trade, military assistance, and peace, some of it in an effort to fill an aching vacuum left by Washington.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 10 June 2025
Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for aching
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“Aching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aching. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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