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
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
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 would break a heart of stone to hear her: ‘Oh! dear sir, what shall I do?’
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various
What spectre from the other world has power to break a heart?
From Mount Music by Ross, Martin
