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
Ms. Huang tried to rally her brokenhearted friends.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2023
He broke up with me very abruptly, and I was extremely brokenhearted.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
Elizabeth was brokenhearted, and it was while they were trying to cheer her up that April and Melanie got the idea for the Ceremony for the Dead.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
