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

There was in her just now nothing but the pagan desire to rule, and to break a heart if need be, if she could not otherwise subdue it.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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

Indeed, she is one of the most charming women I ever met, and to hear her story is enough to break a heart of stone.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham