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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