Many heartbreaking cases go by the orderly's box at the door, and I would like to set some of those young Oxford philanthropists who write pamphlets or articles in The New Age on social subjects by the door for a night.
Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty and heartbreaking to be sixty.
One a tear ofheartbreaking sadness; one a tear of heartbreaking gladness.
The old obsolete system is doomed, and the youth of the future will be no more subject to the pain and the weariness and the heartbreaking that countless generations of the young manhood of the country have had to endure in the past.
The honour of promotion was lost sight of by Prior Robert in his heartbreaking grief at leaving his beloved monastery.
The history of York Abbey is heartbreaking to lovers of art--for from every standpoint St Mary’s church stood as a perfect type of English work.
And reading the heartbreakingreports of our lost battles, I felt myself transported by enthusiasm which, however, was not mingled with any thought of my threatened fatherland.
And confronted with this heartbreaking sight, I forgot my own suffering, and my heart was touched with pity.
As circumstances prescribed, they could slink like ghosts or run like horses and they laid some heartbreaking trails.
It was heartbreaking work just to go through one, and impossible for a man to do so without making as much noise as a running horse.
It is from the empty, poor, however rich, homes that bitter protest and heartbreaking revolt will emerge.
Shortly after the passing of his father, a son entered the death chamber, shook his fist in the face of his dead father and exclaimed with tearless and yet heartbreaking grief: "You are responsible for the ruin of my life.
Far away down the landslip a bird was singing; the song consisted of only two notes, but it was so plaintive and heartbreaking that he scarcely knew how to endure it.
Such flashing, heartbreaking joy he had never experienced before in all his life!
You know nothing of heartbreaking troubles of any sort, or you would not magnify this one!
Yes, Uncle Abel, I am referring to Odalite, and speaking of the most heartbreaking disappointment that ever crushed a man," said the youth.
And what long, arid, heartbreaking and headaching "between-times" of that sort of intense but incoherent noise which always so reminds me of the time the orphan asylum burned down.
He gained it in a final, heartbreaking burst of speed on the part of his mount.
Rathburn called upon his horse for a last, heartbreaking burst of speed and the dun made good.
With a heartbreaking effort he fought the strength of the water, finally gaining the shallow depths.
In one sense she believed herself nearer to God than ever before, but it was heartbreaking to find Him like this.
Poor Moira, years of heartbreaking work and worry had not changed her very much from the girl who had liked to lie in the deep sweet grass of her dear Ireland and let her fancy follow the winging birds into a land of dreams.
Those days of heartbreaking work and the nerve-strain back of it cut lines in his face which were never wholly erased.
That heartbreaking instant passed, and the clicking began again.
Hal Dozier paused another heartbreaking second, then he saw that caution was the better way.
She blew it with exquisite candor, and it gave forth the heartbreaking squawk of the first toy trumpet a child breaks of a Christmas morning.
And now, nearly two thousand years later, after two thousand years more of heartbreaking history, an increasing few are asking bitterly if punishment has ever paid.
She thought of that other night on the water, full of heartbreaking struggle as it was, as a happy night compared to the one which was yet to come.
Susan Stoddard gazed down on it with a grief in her eyes that was the more heartbreaking because it was inarticulate.
Yet he swam on, fighting against the heartbreaking thought that his companion had perhaps gone "down to the dim sea-line" in very truth.
Markhor are bad enough in all conscience, but even markhor are less heartbreaking to deal with than shapoo.
The approach to them is often up a heartbreaking boulder-strewn slope, which apparently continues to the summit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heartbreaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
