heart-wrenching
Example Sentences
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The heart-wrenching effort to locate victims continues online, on a government website that compiles information on survivors and the missing, alongside numerous pleas for help.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s as if he recognizes that so much recent blockbuster filmmaking has been about embedding heart-wrenching pathos into the nostalgic elements we know and love.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
It was as poignant and heart-wrenching as anything he said in the whole interview about “John Wick 3,” the film he was there to promote.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
The chairman of Pakistan's Senate, Yusuf Raza Gilani, called it "a heart-wrenching incident that turned celebrations into mourning".
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needed Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the New York City public schools.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
