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

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

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)

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

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk