ACHE in a Sentence

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132 example sentences for ACHE, such as:

1. Her eyes ached from lack of sleep.
2. I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.
3. My arms ache from carrying this bag.
4. It makes my heart ache to see her suffer.
5. He felt an aching feeling in his stomach.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACHE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ache
 v.  have a desire for something or someone who is not present
 n.  a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1  But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache, veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  As she stood, hesitant, wondering where she could hide until the ache in her breast subsided a little, a thought came to her, bringing a small ray of hope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  If they fell a little short of this, it was not their fault, for no one could take out of her heart the ache that throbbed whenever Ashley's name was mentioned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  She must not let them come to life now; there was all the rest of her life ahead of her in which they could ache.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  For a brief instant Scarlett saw the long hot days in the cotton field, felt again the terrible ache in her back, the raw bruised flesh of her shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  Some of them lacked an arm or a leg or an eye, many had scars which would ache in rainy weather if they lived for seventy years but these seemed small matters now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  Sometimes my arms ache all night from tugging at him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  But there were some nights when even brandy would not still the ache in her heart, the ache that was even stronger than fear of losing the mills, the ache to see Tara again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Now he suddenly felt the latent ache, and realized that after all he had not come off unhurt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
10  The oldest boy takes a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays "Marching through Georgia" till every head in the car begins to ache.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  At mid-morning, when she was momentarily free from the ache in her neck and back, she was glad of the reality of work.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
13  I tried to go to sleep, but the jolting made me bite my tongue, and I soon began to ache all over.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
14  I knew my hands would ache terribly if I went near a fire.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
15  His unappreciated worth was the tender secret Larry shared with his sweethearts, and he was always able to make some foolish heart ache over it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  My arms ache from carrying this bag.
2  Some patients don't refer to the discomfort of angina as an ache; rather they describe it as sudden sharp pains.
3  I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.
4  It makes my heart ache to see her suffer.
5  John till my sinews ache, I _shall_ satisfy him -- to the finest central point and farthest outward circle of his expectations.
6  The classmates' hearts ached for him and they begged him to wear gloves to prevent any more gashes.
7  My fingers were numb and my whole body ached.
8  Her head was throbbing and she ached all over.
9  She still ached for the lost intimacy and sexual contact of marriage.
10  Her eyes ached from lack of sleep.
11  He was always complaining about his various aches and pains.
12  The African sun beat relentlessly down on his aching head.
13  It seemed that nothing could fill the aching black void left by Rachel's death.
14  The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth.
15  He felt an aching feeling in his stomach.