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
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
She is heartsick about the state of our planet and mourns the razing of a former neighbor’s house, along with the giant shade tree beside it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024
From these windows Ged looked out, as he kept by himself in his high tower-room, day after day, dull and heartsick and cold.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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