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Example sentences for "heartache"

Lexicographically close words:
hearsays; hearse; hearsed; hearses; heart; heartaches; heartbeat; heartbeats; heartbreak; heartbreaking
  1. There were sorrow, self-repression, a bitter realisation of life and what it means in heartache and disappointment, in his expression; something of power and assurance too.

  2. A moment more might have ended the year-long griefs and heartache between them.

  3. I had wrongs to avenge, and I swore to be mistress of my own, and to bring home to a bad man the heartache and bitterness he had measured out to another.

  4. I know your feeling at this moment, and I know the heartache sure to follow your rashness.

  5. I'll wager those are seniors, who already feel a little heartache because their college years are so nearly over.

  6. Her grandfather's evasion of her questions about her father and mother, and the twinges of heartache she had experienced at college when other girls spoke of their homes, assumed now for the first time a sinister meaning.

  7. I don't believe Piers will have any heartache wanting thee.

  8. I felt the heartache in the cheerful tone.

  9. I often wonder if life has nothing better for me,' he continued with his heartache voice.

  10. Full well he knew how the girl who stood beside him felt, and the heartache that was her portion.

  11. But if this is true, I found the books better than their friends, and had many a heartache from their pathos, many a genuine glow of purpose from their high import, many a tender suffusion from their sentiment.

  12. Of course the multiple has been at the dance too (with a shadowy heartache for the dances of forty years ago), and knows enough not to confuse the uniforms.

  13. In a way, too, her feelings were touched, at least enough to give her many an hour's heartache afterwards while she was resolutely putting the sweet illusion out of her mind.

  14. She was extremely desirous of doing that; yet she had become so attached to the two good women she was with that it gave her something of a heartache to think of leaving them.

  15. It fairly gives me a heartache to think of going where I shall perhaps never see them again!

  16. Vesta was glad to hear her father praised by her husband, and hopes rekindled of some happier family reunion, when she should feel the heartache die within her that now raged intermittently during her vestal honeymoon.

  17. Tell me about that ancestor," said Vesta, the heartache from his greater errand instigating her to defer it, while she was yet barely conscious that the man was original, if not interesting.

  18. Their men are little at home, and it would be a heartache to them, if they took to spending that little in a ball field, or on the golf links.

  19. And how often do you suppose she has desperately fought down the heartache and tried to believe that your absorption in business is the reason for your forgetfulness of her?

  20. With the fragrance comes the breath from that garden of Mnemosyne, where the simples for heartache nod beside the River of Forgetfulness.

  21. That you failed to make a dreamer of me is no cause for heartache and chagrin.

  22. All of it dear--dearly bought and precious and miraculous, the heartache even as the gladness.

  23. Confession is good for the soul, so it is said; there is joy in a heartache sometimes, and sweet content in tears.

  24. Now, getting rid of her partner on some pretext, she had gone out into the softly illumined gardens to be alone with the yearning and heartache she could not shake off.

  25. Something very like a heartache began to manifest itself in Gavin Brice's supposedly immune breast.

  26. That is, her father was not satisfied, and it all came to nothing save a--a heartache for me.

  27. The words are seeming fair, But many a heartache lies beneath A careless "I don't care!

  28. There's but one sure way to smother Envy's heartache and her sob: Keep too busy at your own to want "the other fellow's job.

  29. How welcome the seeming Of looks that are beaming Whether one's wealthy or whether one's poor; Eyes bright as a berry, Cheeks red as a cherry, The groan and the curse and the heartache can cure.

  30. Irresponsive to the grand beauty of the poem he felt only its undertone of heartache and woe.

  31. Defeated and beaten though it may seem to have been, there has gone out from it an influence for the better that has helped in some degree to lighten the great heartache and bitterness of the world.

  32. A judge, in fairness to the better exhibits, must pass over these poor animals; and thereby must cause heartache and shame to their pathetic owners.

  33. Perhaps it is also maudlin to wonder why a sane human should be fool enough to let himself care for a dog, when he knows that at best he is due for a man's size heartache within a pitifully brief span of years.

  34. So Kit, a little sore on his own account, and with a heartache hidden somewhere, grew serious as only the very young can do.

  35. It was enough for him to go doing his journeys, carrying a heartache till the end came and he was free to understand the why and wherefore of it all.

  36. Rupert had had his fill of disillusion and captivity here in the loyal city; he was human, and could not hide for ever his heartache to be out and doing, lest it ate inward with corrosion.

  37. For a minute she stood looking after him, with a great heartache almost blinding her.

  38. He had always loved her as a big brother, had even experienced a definite heartache when she grew up and went away, a lovely and unattainable girl in the place where their old giddy dear little Norma had been.

  39. Norma looked down, and joy and a vague heartache struggled within her.

  40. But oh, the relentless heartache of those next few weeks!

  41. She liked Denas, and she did not wish to be the means of giving her a heartache or a disappointment.

  42. And this programme, made with a little heartache and sense of love's failure, Denas faithfully carried out.

  43. I wanted to hug her, but had been forbidden lest I should spoil or disarrange some of her finery; and what a heartache I had at the thought that she was never to be the same to me again—so entirely our own—as she had been before.

  44. Ah, how well I remember the heartache it gave me when I was told of her approaching marriage, and that she would then leave our home for Mr. Travilla’s at Ion.

  45. The pity is that when he goes down he inflicts heartache and misery also on others who are in no way responsible.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heartache" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affliction; agony; anguish; bale; bitterness; care; depression; desolation; despair; distress; dole; extremity; grief; heartache; heartbreak; infelicity; melancholia; melancholy; misery; mourning; prostration; regret; sadness; sorrow; woe; worry