ACHING in a Sentence

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132 example sentences for ACHING, such as:

1. Her eyes ached from lack of sleep.
2. Smile though your heart is aching.
3. I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.
4. My arms ache from carrying this bag.
5. He felt an aching feeling in his stomach.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aching
 n.  a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
 a.  causing a dull and steady pain
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1  The glow of passion he had felt for her had melted to an aching tenderness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Yes, she was sick of the hospital, the foul smells, the lice, the aching, unwashed bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  She strained forward trying to hear and soon she found her muscles aching from the tension.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  So she had unharnessed him and crawled, sodden with fatigue, into the back of the wagon and stretched her aching legs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  She gripped the reins tighter with hands that were blistered and slapped them fiercely on the horse's back, her aching arms burning at the movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Stiffly, Scarlett climbed down from the seat, each movement of agony of aching muscles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Scarlett with an effort lifted her head on her aching neck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  She raised an aching head, looked at him with startled incredulity and met the pleading eyes of Mammy, who stood behind Gerald's chair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Finally the pallbearers set the coffin down near the grave and stood clenching and unclenching their aching fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  She pushed a small cushion behind her aching back and thought hungrily of a daughter of her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
11  No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
12  She would gladly have another child, several children, if they would take that look out of Rhett's eyes and fill up the aching spaces in her own heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
13  Scarlett leaned her head against the wall, like a naughty child in a corner, and rubbed her aching throat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
14  She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
15  The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The African sun beat relentlessly down on his aching head.
2  It seemed that nothing could fill the aching black void left by Rachel's death.
3  The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth.
4  He felt an aching feeling in his stomach.
5  Smile though your heart is aching.
6  Every January, nearly 150,000 attendees walk its 2,700 booths, then wait 45 minutes for taxis so they can return to their overpriced Las Vegas hotel rooms with aching feet.
7  The classmates' hearts ached for him and they begged him to wear gloves to prevent any more gashes.
8  My fingers were numb and my whole body ached.
9  Her head was throbbing and she ached all over.
10  She still ached for the lost intimacy and sexual contact of marriage.
11  Her eyes ached from lack of sleep.
12  He was always complaining about his various aches and pains.
13  My arms ache from carrying this bag.
14  Some patients don't refer to the discomfort of angina as an ache; rather they describe it as sudden sharp pains.
15  I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.