break a heart

Example Sentences

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And when Patrice found out that this was a preventable death, she was–you can’t break a heart twice, but she was devastated, and said: I can’t bear the thought of another mother feeling this pain.

From MSNBC • Jun. 26, 2019

But Polish women of this kind would rather break a heart than break their word.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Here, when she smiles, you know it is her teeth She's putting to the test ere she depart For the gay revel on the lawn beneath, Or moonlight ramble that may break a heart.

From When hearts are trumps by Hall, Thomas Winthrop

You can't afford to squeeze a sp—I mean, break a heart in this fashion.

From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

It may break a heart of stone to think, how people that are in such a condition are so unwilling to come out of it: For, 1.

From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Brown, John (of Wamphray)