noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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My personal assistant was my high school sweetheart , Mrs Simpson, who was a complete nutcase.
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Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart , Dave.
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He married his high school sweetheart , though he grimaces at that term.
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Losers marry their high school sweethearts and slowly, very slowly, let their color drain from their bodies.
■ NOUN
childhood
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She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart .
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That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart .
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I've got my childhood sweetheart at last.
school
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My personal assistant was my high school sweetheart , Mrs Simpson, who was a complete nutcase.
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Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart , Dave.
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He married his high school sweetheart , though he grimaces at that term.
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Losers marry their high school sweethearts and slowly, very slowly, let their color drain from their bodies.
■ VERB
marry
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Her eldest brother thought of nothing but the day when he'd have the farm and be able to marry his sweetheart .
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Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart , Dave.
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It all stated when Jamie Spence's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart .
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He married his high school sweetheart , though he grimaces at that term.
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She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart .
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Losers marry their high school sweethearts and slowly, very slowly, let their color drain from their bodies.
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That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart .
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In 1937 he married his college sweetheart .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sweetheart , I've got good news for you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If he had simply been using her why, in that split-second of warning, had he called her sweetheart ?
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Johnny and Carmen are sweethearts, but Carmen loves Zander, because he looks so good in uniform.
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That led to a breakup with his sweetheart , who could not understand what he candidly admitted was a thirst for glory.
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That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart .
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Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart , Dave.
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They then crawled round the stone three times on hands and knees, hoping to see their future sweethearts.