How to Use achingly in a Sentence

achingly

adverb

• Bad lemon curd is pasty, grainy, curdled or tooth-achingly sweet.
  — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2026
• The pace is achingly slow, and the short story feels stretched over eight long episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• As the Times-Picayune tells us, the process is achingly slow.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Aug. 2017
• Daybreak seems achingly far away.
  — Nick Heil, Outside, 15 Jan. 2016
• Collecting items from our pasts can help stir up that achingly warm feeling.
  — Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 26 July 2021
• Sticky, tooth-achingly sweet and chock full o' nuts, pecan pie is too rich to enjoy more than a few times a year.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2022
• What makes this one of my favorites though are the lyrics -- so achingly sad and beautiful.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
• Despite its jokey-sounding premise, this is an achingly sincere book.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• There were no whales here to distract from the monotony, just achingly blue sky, a raw wind and the drone of the outboard.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• Hers is an achingly humane take on a character who could have been a mere device.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• But now, the star is giving all that up in favor of an achingly cool emerging label.
  — Vogue, 6 June 2019
• To get to the heart of the city, listen to its achingly beautiful folk music.
  — Eliot Stein, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2017
• Some had been worn away by the elements, but most were still achingly legible.
  — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2021
• The familiar tough talk and gallows humor among cops seem achingly poignant when the last days are at hand.
  — Nicole Lamy, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Then there are achingly awkward moments that point to a candidate's long odds.
  — Thomas Beaumont, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2019
• Then an achingly beautiful string melody hits, and Yanya’s voice seems to open up, ready to let the light in.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2024
• But the result was achingly familiar for an A’s team that has lost eight of its last nine games.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
• Lyrics — largely about love and the loss of it — ride achingly pretty, often haunting melodies.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
• The knowledge bartenders take pride in their work, and the crowd is young, beautiful, and achingly hip.
  — Scarlett Lindeman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
• His method resulted in sets that got bigger as N did, but achingly slowly.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• But more than half a century after leaving the camp, those summers are still achingly present.
  — USA Today, 10 Jan. 2022
• The result is achingly tender as Monroe skates on the brink of her emotions.
  — Nancy Kruh, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• The final achingly exquisite touch was a pearl button that fastened the strap.
  — Lyn Slater, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024
• So, despite all the advances, the horizon for a warp drive remains achingly remote.
  — Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
• Because in stretches the first comes achingly close to being a masterpiece.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• In his hands, Chandler felt achingly real—no mean feat in a series that relied on three main sets and broad jokes.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2023
• The stakes are incredibly high and the pain the athletes face to make feels achingly familiar.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2020
• Even as no one hit the jackpot by matching all five white numbers and the red Powerball, quite a few came achingly close.
  — Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
• This was a 35-year-old who had been achingly close in the past 10 years but hadn’t been able to get over the finish line.
  — John Feinstein, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
• Washington has played monsters before, but never one who seemed quite so achingly human.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025