brokenhearted

Example Sentences

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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 Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

This is especially hard when we are so raw and brokenhearted, but it is critical that we find ways to see one another.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 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

Joan spent the three days feeling betrayed, used and brokenhearted; memories that she had hoped to make were forever ruined.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2022

I knew he had anointed me to preach the gospel, to bind up the brokenhearted, and to proclaim liberty to the captives.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry