How to Use aching in a Sentence

aching

adjective

• While the jacket describes this as a thriller, my sense of it was of a calm, compassionate clarity, smooth and aching, animating its three core points of view.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• There’s the girl who doesn’t get it and there’s the guy with the aching heart.
  — William Robert Ferrer, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
• When placed on an aching tooth, the seed would ease pain.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
• The smoke, the flames, the aching lungs, the evacuations.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• My aching knee made the call: Stay submerged in this steaming pool.
  — Sara Lessley, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• Readers will come away with full and aching hearts, the best thing that can be said about any novel.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
• Hansen was back at work at GCI on Friday with some aching muscles and a new goal.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2020
• The elder woman bathed her, clothed her and gave her a hot compress for her aching thighs.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
• Asia Hardy cries an aching kind of wail that wraps around your heart for seven minutes of a nine-minute video.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 14 Feb. 2018
• What a depressing hell that must be, and what an aching film A Ghost Story is.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 July 2017
• Dulce María Jiménez said Carlos had gotten sick on a Monday night with a fever and aching body.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Nothing heals a bruised knee, a confused head, or an aching heart like a kiss from papa.
  — Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
• His belly spread and aching knees stood in sharp relief against her girl-freckles and bangs.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
• Her body is in full revolt, from her aching jaw to her fallen arches.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 22 May 2018
• On a recent day, one huge steer languished in the ranch’s infirmary with an herb pack applied to an aching knee.
  — Oliver Griffin, WSJ, 10 July 2018
• This aching nervousness brings on the vengeful and paranoid. . .
  — Armond White, National Review, 5 June 2019
• Digging in the dirt and heaving equipment in blistering heat produces aching backs and raw hands.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Morales, feverish and aching, cooked meals, delivered medicine and did laundry.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• Peck muses about the mythic West, lonely highways and, in his most aching songs, the men who've broken his heart (or vice versa).
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
• At last, Isaac had broken into a run on his aching legs, and reached the hotel in an exhausted hobble.
  — Adam O’Fallon Price, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• In the middle of sweet Pisces season, this is a chance to feel your physical body, a chance to solve a concrete problem, a chance to do something good for the aching world.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 26 Feb. 2018
• Out there on the winding path, closer every day, was Ronald Sanchez Jr., tough and hopeful and kind and aching, deep into his own journey.
  — Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2019
• Easing her aching feet will mean improving her speed, and improved speed means a high enough rating that she won’t be fired.
  — Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2019
• First, new customers are led to creams and are given the opportunity to rub some on aching joints and other sore spots.
  — Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, 27 Sep. 2019
• The projections are by Mike Tutaj, but those shadows seem to be cast by the aching doubt embedded in Roston’s voice.
  — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
• An aching, tender portrait of the heartbreak and growing pains of adolescence from a then-18-year-old wise beyond her years.
  — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2022
• This morning, my body was heavy and aching from a workout and the anxiety that seems to follow me to bed, so my sleep was uncomfortable.
  — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 11 Apr. 2018
• The signs and symptoms of DVT include discomfort, heaviness, pain, aching, throbbing, itching, or warmth in the legs and swelling.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The writing was mature and aching, and the arrangements poignantly stark or ecstatic.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• For a dry aching cough, Makkawi said to consider also using a humidifier to add moisture to the air.
  — Andrea Michelson, Verywell Health, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024