How to Use aching in a Sentence
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There’s the girl who doesn’t get it and there’s the guy with the aching heart.
—William Robert Ferrer, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
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Her body is in full revolt, from her aching jaw to her fallen arches.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 22 May 2018
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Readers will come away with full and aching hearts, the best thing that can be said about any novel.
—Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
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Whether the media of our time are meeting that need is an open and aching question.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 15 June 2024
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The elder woman bathed her, clothed her and gave her a hot compress for her aching thighs.
—Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
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His belly spread and aching knees stood in sharp relief against her girl-freckles and bangs.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
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Nothing heals a bruised knee, a confused head, or an aching heart like a kiss from papa.
—Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
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Asia Hardy cries an aching kind of wail that wraps around your heart for seven minutes of a nine-minute video.
—Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 14 Feb. 2018
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On a recent day, one huge steer languished in the ranch’s infirmary with an herb pack applied to an aching knee.
—Oliver Griffin, WSJ, 10 July 2018
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Digging in the dirt and heaving equipment in blistering heat produces aching backs and raw hands.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 27 June 2018
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What a depressing hell that must be, and what an aching film A Ghost Story is.
—Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 July 2017
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Hansen was back at work at GCI on Friday with some aching muscles and a new goal.
—Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2020
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How many more parents, children, spouses, friends will join this grieving army in their aching, unspeakable form of love?
—Longreads, 12 May 2023
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First, new customers are led to creams and are given the opportunity to rub some on aching joints and other sore spots.
—Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, 27 Sep. 2019
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But our aching backs, knees, and sore butts tell us that one not-so-fun side effect can be discomfort from sitting for long periods.
—Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
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At last, Isaac had broken into a run on his aching legs, and reached the hotel in an exhausted hobble.
—Adam O’Fallon Price, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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The idea was born from their mutual struggles with aching knees and backs that found no relief from doctors or standard pain treatments.
—NBC News, 10 Dec. 2019
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The uterine prolapse is painful; an aching sensation, like a ball of descending pressure.
—The Economist, 28 June 2019
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The writing was mature and aching, and the arrangements poignantly stark or ecstatic.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
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Dulce María Jiménez said Carlos had gotten sick on a Monday night with a fever and aching body.
—Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
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This morning, my body was heavy and aching from a workout and the anxiety that seems to follow me to bed, so my sleep was uncomfortable.
—Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 11 Apr. 2018
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Peck muses about the mythic West, lonely highways and, in his most aching songs, the men who've broken his heart (or vice versa).
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
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After a vigorous day exploring a city or hiking in the wilds, why get all bent out of shape trying to scrub your aching feet or those hard-to-reach back spots?
—Judi Dash, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
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Cale sings lyrics by Dylan Thomas—another aching Welshman—over a tense piano melody.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
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There are moments where the album gets a bit more raucous than his earlier recordings, but not enough to undercut the aching majesty that is his stock in trade.
—Ed Masley, azcentral, 2 July 2019
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That’s because Robert Cornelius, who plays the king, is so suffused with aching mortality.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2018
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An aching, tender portrait of the heartbreak and growing pains of adolescence from a then-18-year-old wise beyond her years.
—Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2022
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For a dry aching cough, Makkawi said to consider also using a humidifier to add moisture to the air.
—Andrea Michelson, Verywell Health, 13 Oct. 2023
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In the middle of sweet Pisces season, this is a chance to feel your physical body, a chance to solve a concrete problem, a chance to do something good for the aching world.
—Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 26 Feb. 2018
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The projections are by Mike Tutaj, but those shadows seem to be cast by the aching doubt embedded in Roston’s voice.
—Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
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