brokenhearted
Example Sentences
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An adolescent whose life is fractured after he survives an attack in a museum that took his mother, Theo is raised into Manhattan wealth but brokenhearted.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
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
Ms. Huang tried to rally her brokenhearted friends.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 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
She’d beg him to stay, but he’d be all noble about returning to his duties, and he’d leave Calypso brokenhearted.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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