brokenhearted
Example Sentences
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A headline in the Boston Globe, external summed up the mood: "Smitten from the start, Boston left brokenhearted as Tartan Army moves on."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
An adolescent whose life is fractured after he survives an attack in a museum that took his mother, Theo is raised into Manhattan wealth but brokenhearted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Ms. Huang tried to rally her brokenhearted friends.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2023
Is this what it is to be brokenhearted?
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
