Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: aches
IPA transcription: ['eɪks]
Usage examples
  • Head aches a good deal.
  • Her back aches, her flexor muscles hurt.
  • "Her head aches," said the tax-collector for his wife.
  • My head aches so damnably that I am incapable of thought.
  • Believe me, my beloved child, my heart aches for your suffering, while it dictates its necessity.
  • 'My head aches,' he answered; 'it aches very badly.' And his mother passed on, and left him alone.
  • The grasp tightens, so that his whole leg aches; he tries to draw in his foot, but it is held immovable.
  • Every bone in my body from the funny to the medulla aches like all possessed, and my joints creak like a new pair of shoes on a school-boy in church, they are so stiff."
  • "The dear child; my heart aches for her," he remarked to his wife, as they went out together, "and I find it almost impossible yet to forgive either that scoundrel Jackson or my brother Arthur."
  • During the night, many thoughts that I had banished for the last week had returned--those thoughts of evil omen under which the mind seems to ache, just as the body aches under a dull, heavy pain, to which we can assign no particular place or cause. Absent from Margaret, I had no resource against the oppression that now overcame me.