brokenhearted

Example Sentences

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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

But Colman explained in a recent interview that costume designer Verity Hawkes wanted to portray the brokenhearted woman as rotting from the inside by darkening her hem to look like there's mold growing through it.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

He broke up with me very abruptly, and I was extremely brokenhearted.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

Yet another called it “my home and safe place … where I have met my best friends, and the place to turn when I felt brokenhearted, frustrated, or alone.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023

He lay there for several hours, brokenhearted and dazed with pain.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig