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

Without a word, he bows himself to Joab, and runs, as unconcerned as the paper of a letter that may break a heart.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

This is that which will make the water stand in our eyes, that will break a heart of flint, and that will make one do as they do that are in bitterness for their firstborn.

From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John

Just a line; but enough to break a heart.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Was he to desert this creature of his affections, and break a heart which beat only for him?

From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield