heartsick

Example Sentences

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To the book’s heartsick narrator, Louise Brown, the man who embodies those old-fashioned virtues is Claude Collier, the 27-year-old layabout scion of an aristocratic New Orleans clan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Years later, on a different kind of bad day — heartsick, this time — I tried to recreate it.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

“Country Radio” provides a sense of heartsick nostalgia over a hopeful chorus of stringed instruments.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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

For now, at least, he is distracted enough not to be heartsick.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman