heart-wrenching
Example Sentences
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Through images online, he came to the heart-wrenching realisation that his family's building had been struck.
From Barron's ● May 20, 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
Time and again, Ann’s hope is met with heart-wrenching pain, and to hear Seyfried’s angelic voice laced with her character’s despair is quite unlike anything I have ever experienced watching a film, musical or otherwise.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
The most heart-wrenching reunion is between two teenage girls and involves a not-quite-murder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Plessy turned out to be a heart-wrenching case about an African-American man named Homer Adolph Plessy who wanted to take a ride on the train in 1892.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
