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

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 Cahan, Abraham

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

Was he to desert this creature of his affections, and break a heart which beat only for him?

From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

If I tell it, I break a heart.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth