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
Just a line; but enough to break a heart.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
It is so easy to break a heart; sometimes a mere word will do it.
From Ziska by Corelli, Marie
What spectre from the other world has power to break a heart?
From Mount Music by Ross, Martin
