tear-jerker

Example Sentences

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That all changed in September after she used an artificial intelligence song generator to transform one of her poems into a tear-jerker called “How Was I Supposed to Know?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

It’s the kind of deliciously painful tear-jerker that’s hard to write and even harder to believably pull off, but it’s also not surprising that this particular pairing will break your heart so beautifully.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

And he shows his students a 1935 Bette Davis tear-jerker called “Dangerous,” about an on-the-skids actress who wants to marry the kind man who restored her to health and talent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

"It is a real tear-jerker, and the audience applauded wildly at the end. It was in that moment I realised that my home in this world was on a stage."

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2023

"All right," I muttered savagely, "let's go and get a tear-jerker to write!"

From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest