brokenhearted

Example Sentences

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But none of his previous efforts have exuded such a strong fairy-tale quality as “Dogman,” a strange, sincere paean to a brokenhearted outsider who may also be a sociopath.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024

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

And now here she was, eventually to be gone again, leaving behind her brokenhearted jiichan and baachan...both of whom were now moving swiftly down the rows, planting, planting, planting.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata