heartbreaking
Example Sentences
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Mien put an arm around my shoulder and drew me across the room till we were standing above that heartbreaking row.
From Literature
Speaking on Capitol Hill, he said: "There are days when you don't want to show up, but you have to keep going. It's heartbreaking that in this day and age this is still happening."
From BBC
After Team USA’s heartbreaking loss in the final to Japan in 2023, this was supposed to be the year when America finally asserted its dominance in America’s game.
Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.
From Los Angeles Times
In a statement on LinkedIn, Watt described the news as "heartbreaking".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
