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heartbroken

adjective as in melancholy

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Example Sentences

“Coco had just been lost and heartbroken without her,” Rountree said.

The owner of the company recently passed away, and we are heartbroken and completely freaked out.

Harbaugh’s voice has reached the back end of wearied, Herman’s the middle of heartbroken, Frost’s the front edge of sameness.

When nurses called this Monday to say that she had tested positive, the younger McAlpin said she was heartbroken but not surprised.

My daughter is heartbroken, disappointed and a little angry, too.

Cue heartbroken Galavant engorging himself on booze and mutton back home.

And when that happened several months back, the friend said, Brinsley was heartbroken.

Why do they sincerely try to restore, or preserve, the line between the two, and get heartbroken when the line fails?

Her heartbroken and horrified brother, Sam Jones, made the identification.

For now, even the tragedy that left many local people in shock and heartbroken has not brought on a lull in the fighting.

Just as we started out of Jackson the conductor led in a young woman sobbing in a heartbroken manner.

He stood before me the most woebegone, heartbroken man I ever saw.

He retires, abashed and heartbroken, and Castero takes his place.

And so the poor old heartbroken creature had to go to the Governor and get the old man pardoned out.

It is what I feared, he said, rising from where he sat reading his great Bible, with an air of heartbroken dejection.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heartbroken, such as: grief-stricken, sad, brokenhearted, doleful, heartsick, and heartsore.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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