HEART in a Sentence

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For HEART, below is one of 420 sentences:
The cutter was going in the direction of the Frome farm, and Ethan's heart contracted as he listened to the dwindling bells.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEART
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heart
 n.  organ that pumps blood through the body
 n.  center of a person's thoughts and emotions
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Frome's heart was beating fast.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The other he tried to slip through hers; but she eluded him nimbly, and Frome's heart, which had swung out over a black void, trembled back to safety.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  The cutter was going in the direction of the Frome farm, and Ethan's heart contracted as he listened to the dwindling bells.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  Ethan stood looking at her, his heart in his throat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
6  Ethan's heart was jerking to and fro between two extremities of feeling, but for the moment compassion prevailed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  She was so small and weak-looking that it wrung his heart; but suddenly she lifted her head and looked straight at him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  When supper was over she rose from her seat and pressed her hand to the flat surface over the region of her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  It was a shy secret spot, full of the same dumb melancholy that Ethan felt in his heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  His heart reeled with the sweetness of it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  The words were like fragments torn from his heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  Mrs. Hale answered simply: "There was nowhere else for her to go;" and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  But sometimes the two of them get going at each other, and then Ethan's face'd break your heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  He knew he had made India love him and he knew that she still loved him and, deep in his heart, he had the feeling that he had not played the gentleman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Doctors said surgery could induce a heart attack.
17  He died of a heart attack brought on by overwork.
18  A third heart attack finally finished off the old man.
19  A muscular spasm in the coronary artery can cause a heart attack.
20  I was waiting for your attention till my heart says no.
21  I quietly walked away,I gently rippling heart will become calm.
22  A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.
23  There is a general presumption that fatty foods are bad for your heart.
24  His heart cannot be pure whose tongue is not clear.
25  I will loveyou with every beat of my heart.
26  Her heart beat violently when she received the letter.
27  Every beat of my heart, loudly cries your name, I want so much to be with you, oh, please, please, feel the same.
28  Good looks may fade, but a good heart keeps you beautiful forever.
29  To forgive is not to forget, nor remit, but let it go; to be lonely is not because you have no friends, but no one is living in your heart.
30  It is because of heart bottom touch that empty, so he just so painful.