brokenhearted

Example Sentences

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Ms. Huang tried to rally her brokenhearted friends.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023

But Colman explained in a recent interview that costume designer Verity Hawkes wanted to portray the brokenhearted woman as rotting from the inside by darkening her hem to look like there's mold growing through it.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

He broke up with me very abruptly, and I was extremely brokenhearted.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

Yet another called it “my home and safe place … where I have met my best friends, and the place to turn when I felt brokenhearted, frustrated, or alone.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023

And now here she was, eventually to be gone again, leaving behind her brokenhearted jiichan and baachan...both of whom were now moving swiftly down the rows, planting, planting, planting.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata