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Example sentences for "broken heart"

  • Gentlemen of the jury (said the learned counsel in conclusion), I leave you with a broken heart in your hands!

  • My learned friend has dwelt, with his accustomed eloquence, on his client's broken heart.

  • You will, therefore, consider your verdict, gentlemen, and give such moderate damages as will entirely mend the plaintiff's broken heart.

  • If all ladies were like you, one might be surrounded by a hundred, and yet die of a broken heart!

  • Long, long have these eyes been drenched with the tears of a broken heart!

  • They are the agonies of a broken heart--pleasure and I have shaken hands.

  • These are however trifling inconveniences, compared with anguish of mind--compared with the sinking of a broken heart.

  • Your wife died three nights ago--died of a broken heart, while I, her sister who hated her, was dancing at a ball!

  • Vera, did she curse my memory when she lay dying of a broken heart?

  • That's only another name for a broken heart.

  • Her eyes as she turned them on him were full of distance and of depth and, with sickening grief, he felt that a woman with a broken heart could do nothing more for herself or for him.

  • But you can be happy with a broken heart," she said.

  • I never knowed but one case of a broken heart, and that was in t'other sex, one Washington Banks.

  • I'm dyin', says he, 'of a broken heart.

  • Sure enough, he did die that very fall; and he was the only instance I ever heard tell of a broken heart.

  • I distinctly think that he was the cause of her death, but I think that she died of a broken heart," and so saying I left her.

  • It was a fair proof that neither here was there a broken heart, though there might be some disappointment and vexation.

  • I don't think that we need consider ourselves responsible for a broken heart," she added suddenly.

  • You'll kill the giant, take his ring, and mend the Princess' Broken Heart!

  • That afternoon I made five calls, and in every home I found a broken heart.

  • I had not been gone more than three years, and when I returned I found that that mother had gone down to her grave with a broken heart, and that man was the murderer of the wife of his bosom.

  • She went to him to try and regain whatever influence she possessed over him, but her efforts were useless, and she came home with a broken heart.

  • The subject of a broken heart is one of vital importance, because it is essential to salvation.

  • Very little more need be said, by way of introducing to our readers this new edition of Bunyan's Excellency of a Broken Heart.

  • Now a soft, a tender, and a broken heart, is a fit place for the grace of fear to thrive in.

  • He kept a smuggling vessel, which in some cases ought to have carried a black flag, and the maiden he loved was given to another, who died of a broken heart.

  • I was thinking of Ruth, Ruth loving me through long years, and then dying of a broken heart.

  • When I described my meeting with Bill Tregargus, and how I had heard that Ruth had died of a broken heart, driven to death by Wilfred, I saw the tears start to Salambo's eyes, and he eagerly asked what followed next.

  • Miss Gray is very pretty if you look at her real close and she's quiet because her bosom carries a broken heart.

  • Oh, he died of a broken heart, a broken spirit.

  • You wouldn't believe that just that could open the flood-gates of a broken heart," she exclaimed later to Jerry and Pat Everett, feeling very important over her astonishing revelation.

  • It has been said that Father Mathew died of a broken heart, because so many of his converts violated their pledges, but, since the days of Peter the Hermit, no individual has exercised such a moral influence.

  • My Broken Heart is the outstanding inner item of my life: and it still is a very small thing even in my own reckoning.

  • Its foolishness is the foremost thing about my Broken Heart.

  • A familiar sharp twist To-morrow I have--a Broken Heart-- It is nearly a year now.

  • And being left in possession of a Broken Heart I feel it to be a triply insanely foolish thing: but complete and absolute and natural.

  • I have not had a Broken Heart in the years before.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broken heart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blood and; broken covenant; broken down; broken glass; broken ground; broken head; broken heart; broken only; broken pottery; broken stone; broken water; cavalry were; desired them; exerted himself; last held; liquid manure; mighty shout; monastic vows; mutually beneficial; nous sommes; particular character; rather stout; small detachment; starting from; this second; will tell you why