How to Use sweetheart in a Sentence

sweetheart

noun
  • She is such a little sweetheart.
  • Be a sweetheart and help your grandmother.
  • To the shock of Jennifer's friends, Lopez was her high school sweetheart and date to the prom.
    Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • For dessert, there’s a choice of a whiskey sundae or a sweetheart tart.
    Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Nora walks her childhood sweetheart down the block, puts him in a cab.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Both were married for more than 40 years to their high school sweethearts.
    Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Every year for Valentine's Day, lovers around the world pull out all the stops for their sweethearts.
    Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Looking for a craft to send to your sweetheart this Valentine's Day?
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Cheers to another year around the sun with my sweetheart.
    Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
  • This guy, who has the cutest ears, is a total sweetheart and does very well in his kennel.
    Teryn Jones, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Though long married to his wife Lisa, Larkin's high school sweetheart was far from a Moeller fan.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 18 July 2022
  • Don’t tell the Happy Gilmore fans, but Adam Sandler might be a straight-up sweetheart?
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The singer married his high school sweetheart, Cherry Seaborn, back in 2019.
    Tre'vaughn Howard, CBS News, 20 May 2022
  • Gomez grew up in a small town outside Fresno and planned to join the Navy and marry his high school sweetheart.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023
  • Wally was by then a lawyer who had married a high school sweetheart.
    New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • Get sporty If your sweetheart isn’t one to sit still, fuel their fire with a sporty outing.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Oh, and a reunion with season 1 sweetheart Cam Cameron.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 July 2023
  • The film stars Andrea Brooks and Patch May as former college sweethearts who team up on a new project.
    Mike Rose, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • It is designed to make the most of cool evenings and is perfect for wooing your high school sweetheart who has just moved back to town.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Turner was sentenced to probation as part of the sweetheart plea deal in April 2022.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • For the show's leading man, Turner is looking for love again after the death of his wife and high school sweetheart, Toni.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
  • High school sweethearts at Apollo High School in Owensboro, the duo met through marching band.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The former costars, who played high school sweethearts Brooke and Lucas, don’t appear to be in touch much anymore.
    Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Her parents, Linda and Mike Reaves Jr., were high school sweethearts.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Barker married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Jo Gideon, in 1945, and went back to college after the war.
    Time, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Kantor, a New York native who had just bought a new home and was set to marry his high school sweetheart, was killed in the shooting.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • It's proven that sustained eye contact can bring you and your sweetheart closer.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2022
  • His childhood sweetheart and wife of 70 years, Irene, known as Tootsie, died in July at 89.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Marissa and Mike Mitchell, of Newburgh, Ind., met in seventh grade and became sweethearts.
    Louise Rafkin, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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