heart-rending
Example Sentences
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That leaves IVF patients with the heart-rending decision of when to stop trying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
"We have some heart-rending stories from families of people with disabilities, who feel that when they don't have cash accepted, it is robbing them of their self-esteem," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024
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
Yousuf Abubakr, a UC Berkeley graduate student in mechanical engineering, said heart-rending images on social media of the suffering of Palestinian civilians prompted him to join the movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024
A peculiar and heart-rending gasp of final sorrow came from the Laughing Man.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
