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

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 Bunyan, John

It may break a heart of stone to think, how people that are in such a condition are so unwilling to come out of it: For, 1.

From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Brown, John (of Wamphray)

It is so easy to break a heart; sometimes a mere word will do it.

From Ziska by Corelli, Marie

But Polish women of this kind would rather break a heart than break their word.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk