The phrase "ache for something" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express a strong desire or longing for something or someone.
Example: "After years of living abroad, she began to ache for the familiar comforts of home."
Alternatives: "long for something" or "yearn for something".
You ache for something to quench the thirst of a thousand deserts.
In their different ways, all Phillips's characters ache for something, without ever knowing what it is.
Yes, the surface is really shiny but it's so empty it will make your brain ache for something more challenging, like one of those find-a-word puzzles on a diner placemat.
The connections and constraints of small-town life — and the almost erotic ache for something more — remain Strout's primary subject.
Even in the newly built Sapareen housing complex -- a United Nations project where homes are modern in every way, with plumbing, glass windows, a septic system, steel doors and a walled front yard -- there was an ache for something else.
Overtime, our ache for something the other could no longer give us trumped our ability to pretend the other was all we needed.
In Houston, the Texans were aching for something more from their quarterback.
I moped around the house, aching for something to serially eliminate.
We're at a crossroads in terms of the practice of dissent, with activists aching for something new.
"They don't want to leave for various reasons — children, money, you name it — but they're just sort of aching for something that's emotionally reinforcing," Schwartz said.
Let's not dwell on the specifics of temporary things or the pulp of last night's gossip... because that will only leave me with a feeling of emptiness and stagnancy and my spirit is aching for something -- someone -- to rise to meet it.
