brokenhearted
Example Sentences
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Lizzie Rovzek, who appeared in episodes scattered over five seasons of “RHOC,” wrote, “Love you so much. Amen” on that post, which included the sentence “He heals the brokenhearted and binds their wounds.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2025
Ms. Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2023
But Colman explained in a recent interview that costume designer Verity Hawkes wanted to portray the brokenhearted woman as rotting from the inside by darkening her hem to look like there's mold growing through it.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023
He broke up with me very abruptly, and I was extremely brokenhearted.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023
As if he was so brokenhearted he couldn’t bear to hold the notes any longer.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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