break a heart
Example Sentences
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And when Patrice found out that this was a preventable death, she was–you can’t break a heart twice, but she was devastated, and said: I can’t bear the thought of another mother feeling this pain.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 26, 2019
Was he to desert this creature of his affections, and break a heart which beat only for him?
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Indeed, she is one of the most charming women I ever met, and to hear her story is enough to break a heart of stone.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
This is that which will make the water stand in our eyes, that will break a heart of flint, and that will make one do as they do that are in bitterness for their firstborn.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
Last week I thought that my heart was broken; but now—well, it takes a lot to break a heart.
From The Wooden Horse by Sir Hugh Walpole
