heart-rending
Example Sentences
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That's a shame, as they contain some gems – not least All Alone, the heart-rending story of a young single mother whose life "never goes the way she may have wanted it to".
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
That leaves IVF patients with the heart-rending decision of when to stop trying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Later, she would sob huge, sloppy, heart-rending tears asking why her parents wouldn’t come get her — had they forgotten her?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024
And “Normal Thing,” a grower from Abrams’ latest album, was transformed with a heart-rending drum build.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024
Elizabeth’s heart-rending eloquence failed to move the judges from their settled conviction in the criminality of the saintly sufferer.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
