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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When placed on an aching tooth, the seed would ease pain.
—Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
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The smoke, the flames, the aching lungs, the evacuations.
—Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
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My aching knee made the call: Stay submerged in this steaming pool.
—Sara Lessley, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This aching nervousness brings on the vengeful and paranoid. . .
—Armond White, National Review, 5 June 2019
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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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Morales, feverish and aching, cooked meals, delivered medicine and did laundry.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
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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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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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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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Out there on the winding path, closer every day, was Ronald Sanchez Jr., tough and hopeful and kind and aching, deep into his own journey.
—Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2019
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Easing her aching feet will mean improving her speed, and improved speed means a high enough rating that she won’t be fired.
—Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2019
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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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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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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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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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The signs and symptoms of DVT include discomfort, heaviness, pain, aching, throbbing, itching, or warmth in the legs and swelling.
—Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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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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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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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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