heartsick

Example Sentences

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Years later, on a different kind of bad day — heartsick, this time — I tried to recreate it.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

As if in a cipher made up of different versions of himself, there’s an endless give-and-take between Idris the teacher and Idris the performer and Idris the writer and Idris the nerdy heartsick hip-hop stan.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024

That year, she also released her own song, Reason to Stay, a warm and soulful introduction to her heartsick love ballads.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2024

“We are heartsick the world has lost Paul Reubens,” tweeted ’80s rock band the Go-Go’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

They may be hungry, wounded, heartsick at the death of comrades, but they forget everything when they see him, and they break into cheers as if this hero had brought them nothing but pure joy.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt