heartsick

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

Addressing fans through her On the Jlo newsletter, the singer wrote: "I am completely heartsick and devastated about letting you down."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024

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

“We are heartsick the world has lost Paul Reubens,” tweeted ’80s rock band the Go-Go’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

He watched them tend to Seabiscuit, then walked back to the jockeys’ room and sat down, heartsick.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand