heartsick
Example Sentences
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Montoya can at least claim to know the score, since he was a Spanish reality TV veteran before romantic distress transformed him into a heartsick Sonic the Hedgehog.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2025
As if in a cipher made up of different versions of himself, there’s an endless give-and-take between Idris the teacher and Idris the performer and Idris the writer and Idris the nerdy heartsick hip-hop stan.
From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024
That year, she also released her own song, Reason to Stay, a warm and soulful introduction to her heartsick love ballads.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2024
Harrison David Rivers’s merciful new drama, “The Salvagers,” is not a romance, but it emphatically is a love story: about a furious, heartsick young actor and his imperfect parents, steadfastly trying to help him heal.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Mrs. Coulter, sore and heartsick, opened her eyes; she had not been asleep.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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