heartsick

Example Sentences

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Years later, on a different kind of bad day — heartsick, this time — I tried to recreate it.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

Addressing fans through her On the Jlo newsletter, the singer wrote: "I am completely heartsick and devastated about letting you down."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024

As if in a cipher made up of different versions of himself, there’s an endless give-and-take between Idris the teacher and Idris the performer and Idris the writer and Idris the nerdy heartsick hip-hop stan.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024

She is heartsick about the state of our planet and mourns the razing of a former neighbor’s house, along with the giant shade tree beside it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

From these windows Ged looked out, as he kept by himself in his high tower-room, day after day, dull and heartsick and cold.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin