hearts

IPA: hˈɑrts

noun

  • (uncountable) One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.
  • (card games, uncountable) A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.
  • (soccer) Heart of Midlothian F.C., a football club from Edinburgh.
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Examples of "hearts" in Sentences

  • And the lady of our hearts is all the one — ­the Little
  • And the lady of our hearts is all the one — ­the Little Lady.
  • The fear of death that lurks in our hearts is a fear of absence, of a forced exile from her life, of missing that life.
  • I hope that after the smoke clears, level heads will prevail, and they will do what they know in their hearts is the right thing. cindy
  • This unluckily was not my business: I wished to elevate their minds; but to what they called their hearts I had not the slightest claim.
  • What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is the swaggering officer type, the jingle of spurs and the crash of boots.
  • The Kenyans have been counting on international aid groups to prop up their counterinsurgency campaign - the phrase "hearts and minds" crops up repeatedly in conversations with the soldiers.
  • Where hearts are not wilfully closed against such preaching of "_the truth as it is in Jesus_," they will, through its power, become "_broken and contrite hearts_," from which will arise earnest pleadings for forgiveness and acceptance.
  • In fact, the only time the phrase "hearts and minds" appears in the U.S. Army's counterinsurgency field manual is in an appendix—written by Australian expert David Kilcullen— that explains that the hearts-and-minds approach is not about making people like you but about affecting the decisions they make.

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