Wondering how to use Ached in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Ached meaning
simple past and past participle of ache
Using Ached
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of ache
- In the example corpus, ached often appears in combinations such as: ached for, ached from, that ached.
Context around Ached
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ached
- In this selection, "ached" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, soul, fingers and foot stand out and add context to how "ached" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 9 and ached all over and body has ached. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ached" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ached
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
My thumb ached from hours spent scrolling. (7 words)
As soon as you walked into my bookstore/bakery, my soul ached for your touch. (15 words)
Once again, my stab wound was still weeping, my head and body still ached from the beating. (17 words)
But when I got the prints back, the room was so little and sparse—four walls with a giant poster of David Bowie on one, a bed scrupulously made with a cheap wool blanket—that I ached at the difference between my hopes for him and his reality. (48 words)
My mind feels as if it ached to behold & know something great – something one & indivisible – and it is only in the faith of this that rocks or waterfalls, mountains or caverns give me the sense of sublimity or majesty! (39 words)
He was somewhat disfigured from surgery for cancer, and he told me his foot ached because he was standing for so many hours every day keeping an eye on the self-checkout counters. (33 words)
My mind feels as if it ached to behold & know something great – something one & indivisible – and it is only in the faith of this that rocks or waterfalls, mountains or caverns give me the sense of sublimity or majesty! (39 words)
Example sentences (16)
As soon as you walked into my bookstore/bakery, my soul ached for your touch.
Once again, my stab wound was still weeping, my head and body still ached from the beating.
Again and again, as my forearms trembled and my fingers ached, my feet slipped on the mercilessly smooth granite.
But when I got the prints back, the room was so little and sparse—four walls with a giant poster of David Bowie on one, a bed scrupulously made with a cheap wool blanket—that I ached at the difference between my hopes for him and his reality.
Faced with an exciting, yet terrifying, new power, Tim sets out on a journey to find the one thing he’s always ached for: love.
He was somewhat disfigured from surgery for cancer, and he told me his foot ached because he was standing for so many hours every day keeping an eye on the self-checkout counters.
I laughed hard, cried 'til my eyes ached, and once gasped so loud that I heard it echo across a theater struck silent by a moment both shocking and tender.
Having helped in making them mine, I remember their arrivals that still produced grave guilt in one’s motherhood because we have ached for sons instead.
I ached with laughter, or was it recognition as the ‘performers’ the students milled, chatted, worked whilst the tutor, in this case Francis, observes, bites his tongue and oh, oh, staying neutral.
I spiked a fever with chills (this is when I found out that my baseline temp is not 98.6 but 97.9) and ached all over.
Madhubala touched the hearts of her fans, but one thing she ached for till her last breath was the love of tragedy king of Bollywood, Dilip Kumar.
My thumb ached from hours spent scrolling.
Because — we were never given permission as children to feel whole / to feel validated / to feel like ‘good people’ when it was our minds & hearts that ached.
She added: ‘This year I have felt a loss so profound that my whole body has ached.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who is in Atlanta this weekend being honored by The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, said “my soul has ached” during Trump’s presidency.
My mind feels as if it ached to behold & know something great – something one & indivisible – and it is only in the faith of this that rocks or waterfalls, mountains or caverns give me the sense of sublimity or majesty!
Common combinations with ached
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: