How to Use heartache in a Sentence

heartache

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  • I've had more than my share of heartaches in my life.
  • Amill Principe and his wife know the meaning of heartache.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But the last two years the Lancers have known mostly heartache.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The next day, the agony of not knowing ended, but with the news came more heartache.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The only way to go is through, and sometimes that means a lot of heartache and love and loss.
    — Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
  • And here is the most popular girl, singing about their heartache.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • For all parties involved, the love for The Love Album feels more like heartache.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Like any good country artist, Peck writes about heartache.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 2 June 2022
  • To steal a line from Johnny Cash, just around that corner was heartache.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2022
  • And so, in 1937, in the midst of his heartache, Johnny went back to Budapest for a visit.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The same home movies of Christmas morning, the same longing glances across the bar, the same nostalgia, the same heartache.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • At the age of 8, Chelsea would mourn the loss of her beloved swim coach who was shot and killed, turning to art once more to help deal with the heartache and pain.
    — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Planning ahead for gifts like these can save time and heartache later.
    — Legal Entertainment, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Members of the zoo staff, however, have expressed heartache over the loss.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Alex Guarnaschelli is looking on the bright side of heartache.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of people know her as a woman that had to face a lot of suffering and heartache.
    — Kui Mwai, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Streisand sings it with astute, rueful humor and a touch of heartache.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The poem embodies heartache, loss, and love, often at the same time.
    — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The Chicks’ Fly, the music that promised my sister and me our freedom, became the soundtrack to my heartache.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Our first year of chicken-keeping had been full of tiny wonders and short on heartache.
    — Amory Rowe Salem and Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 9 Jan. 2024
  • What a simple, cold phrase to explain what is still a true heartache for the families.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Most people assume that times of grief, sadness, or heartache are the hardest parts of life, and that's true.
    — Sophia Caraballo, Woman's Day, 1 June 2022
  • One is that suicides on the bridge happen one at a time, and people rarely stop and add up the toll, in terms of numbers and heartache.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Even in the face of unspeakable heartache, its limbs reach outward and upward.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Wynonna and Naomi sang about grandpa and the good ol’ days, and then held each other in love or heartache.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Sowing seed or planting seedlings at the wrong time will bring nothing but heartache.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Save yourself the future heartache and cut your losses now.
    — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Its last three World Cup campaigns, at least, have been long months of angst and tension and inevitable heartache.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Jennifer Lopez is ready to make art out of previous heartache.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 7 Jan. 2024
  • That would have saved myself, Clayton and all of the other women involved a lot of heartache.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022

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