The muscle and skin she explored were achingly familiar and all new to her.

The leather binding, slightly worn and beaten was achingly familiar.

What so many middle-class workers are experiencing for the first time is achingly familiar to poorer people.

He came more or less to attention, and gave her a courteous half-nod that was achingly familiar.

His voice sounds achingly familiar and at the same time completely distinctive.

It was a miserable place, one that had become achingly familiar as our departure date grew closer.

Her voice was achingly familiar; of course he had heard her speak in public now and then.

Many recent designs seem achingly familiar: small rooms assigned to two people, ranged along a corridor.

All he could see was an expanse of bare back that was achingly familiar.

He smoothed it back from his face in an achingly familiar gesture.