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
The 63-year-old “Achy Breaky Heart” musician on Sunday penned a message of gratitude for “the California Rain” soaking the fire-ravaged state and said he was “praying for the brokenhearted and their pain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
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
He broke up with me very abruptly, and I was extremely brokenhearted.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
They also took my boots—I’m brokenhearted about my boots!
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
