as in sorrow
deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved
the heartache she felt when she saw the innocent victims of the war
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Recent Examples of heartache
Running underneath all of our efforts was heartache, sorrow, and anxiety over her loss.
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Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Two games into the 2025-26 season, the heartache that the Sharks have felt in that area has only gotten worse.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2025
Judah The movie version of Laura is very much single, still nursing the heartache of her break-up with fellow journalist Ben (David Ajala), who is also on the cruise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
With the country music landscape now punctuated by a generation of young songwriters laying bare personal trauma and intense heartache, Whitcomb wanted his first full-length to capture his life so far, darkness be damned.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for heartache
Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Two games into the 2025-26 season, the heartache that the Sharks have felt in that area has only gotten worse.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2025
Judah The movie version of Laura is very much single, still nursing the heartache of her break-up with fellow journalist Ben (David Ajala), who is also on the cruise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
With the country music landscape now punctuated by a generation of young songwriters laying bare personal trauma and intense heartache, Whitcomb wanted his first full-length to capture his life so far, darkness be damned.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for heartache
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartache
Noun
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The marvel of this verse is in its vulnerability in expressing sorrow, lost love and despair—under the seams runs the pain.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Among the recurrent themes are suicide, mysteriously intractable sorrow, and failed attempts at familial and romantic connection.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Added to the trauma of grief and sudden eviction under threat of reprisal, Adelaida has to endure seeing the sacred mementos of her mother’s life trashed by the thuggish new squatters.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) Moody and intricate (sometimes maddeningly so), this debut from Oz Perkins (son of Psycho star Anthony) inflicts supernatural horror and grief upon the students of a Catholic boarding school.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The towering performance has generated major Oscar buzz since the film’s premiere at Telluride, where audiences were visibly shaken — and deeply moved — by Buckley’s portrayal of a mother’s anguish.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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The lawsuit, filed by Morgan & Morgan, says the woman lost consciousness and suffered permanent bodily injury, mental anguish, and more in the incident on the Mako coaster on March 24.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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Plus, as someone who runs a love expert app, Singh gets the sting of heartbreak all too well.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Even though All’s Fair has served up its share of heartbreak and deception, here's everything to know about the real-life loves of the All's Fair cast.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Heartache.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartache. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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