heartbrokenly

Example Sentences

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There on the carpeted counter, between the rifles, she sobbed heartbrokenly.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston

“Then you aren’t—?” she questioned heartbrokenly, “then you aren’t, at all?”

From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel

Nina writes heartbrokenly; Johnnie was very dear to her; sorrow seems to have brought out all that is best in her.

From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor

A few minutes later she was kneeling beside Debby, where she still lay sobbing heartbrokenly.

From Anxious Audrey by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

Disturbed by the noise, or possibly by unpleasant dreams of her baptism, the child who had been christened began to cry heartbrokenly in the room overhead.

From Stories by English Authors: England by Hardy, Thomas