heavyhearted

Example Sentences

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You certainly won’t forget security head Tracii, the clinic’s heavyhearted knight and guide.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

The play stands with Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” as an indelible achievement in this heavyhearted period of American drama.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2020

The role that Gregory Peck turned into a moral beacon in the classic 1962 film is played by Jeff Daniels with a shambling, heavyhearted ambivalence.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2018

The races to be run, the records to be broken, were not all that preoccupied the heavyhearted Hungarian Olympic team.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Howard broke through that frozen curtain of time by grabbing his shoes and heading off up the path toward his house, leaving me standing there ashamed and heavyhearted.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor