broken heart
Example Sentences
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Because, aside from when you’re the teen in question, it almost always looks ridiculous when a kid is just an overemotional, theatrical mess of a broken heart.
From Los Angeles Times
Not to make light of any teen’s emotional injury, but will dating sites now be held liable for broken hearts?
Dating meant broken hearts and bad tempers and vengeful dreams.
From Literature
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"We have come here with broken hearts and confused minds, with so many questions. Why death in the bloom of youth, and why like this?" said the priest.
From Barron's
I conclude not with a joke but with a proverb at the essence of most Jewish jokes: What is as whole as a Jew with a broken heart?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.