brokenhearted
Example Sentences
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A headline in the Boston Globe, external summed up the mood: "Smitten from the start, Boston left brokenhearted as Tartan Army moves on."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
But none of his previous efforts have exuded such a strong fairy-tale quality as “Dogman,” a strange, sincere paean to a brokenhearted outsider who may also be a sociopath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Ms. Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
In her favorite novel, a brokenhearted boy burns everything his ex-girlfriend ever gave him, including a photo of her as a child.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
