How to Use achingly in a Sentence

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• There’s an achingly palpable, playful chemistry between Pugh and Garfield that leaps off the screen.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• As the Times-Picayune tells us, the process is achingly slow.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Aug. 2017
• The pace is achingly slow, and the short story feels stretched over eight long episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• Twice in the 1980s, the Angels came achingly close to a pennant under Gene Mauch.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• To get to the heart of the city, listen to its achingly beautiful folk music.
  — Eliot Stein, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2017
• 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
• The achingly slow talks on the next MFF might be considered the painful transition between the old world and the new one.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• What makes this one of my favorites though are the lyrics -- so achingly sad and beautiful.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Corbin released this achingly poignant ballad in 2012 as a track from About To Get Real.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• If the moment-to-moment meaning of the scene sometimes requires guesswork, the love story at the heart of the tale is achingly clear.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But now, the star is giving all that up in favor of an achingly cool emerging label.
  — Vogue, 6 June 2019
• Lyrics — largely about love and the loss of it — ride achingly pretty, often haunting melodies.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
• But there are still scenes that are achingly beautiful.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
• The stakes are incredibly high and the pain the athletes face to make feels achingly familiar.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2020
• The recovery has been so achingly slow and uneven that, on the second day of the series, the entire island was blacked out for a time.
  — Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Giving up even a sliver now felt achingly close to defeat.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 26 June 2020
• So, despite all the advances, the horizon for a warp drive remains achingly remote.
  — Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
• Hers is an achingly humane take on a character who could have been a mere device.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• The final achingly exquisite touch was a pearl button that fastened the strap.
  — Lyn Slater, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024
• Some had been worn away by the elements, but most were still achingly legible.
  — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2021
• Here are a few standout pairings: An achingly pretty song that sweeps along with a summery, ‘70s soul/pop vibe.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
• The best sessions of Dungeons & Dragons walk the line between stirring tales of teamwork and achingly nerdy jokes.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2023
• Its tone veers from laugh-out-loud funny to achingly sad to third-act-of-Goodfellas-level frantic, and back and forth again.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024