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Example sentences for "heartbroken"

Lexicographically close words:
heartaches; heartbeat; heartbeats; heartbreak; heartbreaking; heartburn; heartburnings; hearte; hearted; heartedly
  1. He is gazing at her in a heartbroken sort of way.

  2. Mercifully, too, the moon has gone behind a cloud, a tender preparation for an abdication presently, so that he cannot see the two heartbroken tears that steal slowly down her cheeks.

  3. With a little shamed, heartbroken gesture she tears her hand out of his and covers her face from his sight.

  4. And each in turn, even the desolate, heartbroken old grandmother, looks up to receive them with a smile of tender indulgence.

  5. It was a heartbroken appeal from Costantino.

  6. Indeed, after the second day out, Mr. Reardon would have been heartbroken had anything happened to that wireless.

  7. Three months later, however, when Cappy Ricks had changed his mind, and Mr. Skinner was too heartbroken to curse himself for a purblind idiot, it was too late to place the contracts.

  8. The terrified manager continued his heartbroken lament, and Hammon seemed about to destroy him when Merkle drew the latter aside, speaking in an undertone.

  9. She was heartbroken at the occurrence, but she was too full of her own troubles to give way to her sympathy for others.

  10. When the raiding parties came back, there were no missing members, and no casualties to be telegraphed to heartbroken parents.

  11. Late in the autumn the minister died of typhoid fever, and Jean, heartbroken and physically worn out, was compelled to face for her mother and herself, a complete change of life.

  12. All the night long he was only able to utter that one heartbroken cry for pity and help.

  13. He is a proud man, and I know he is heartbroken to think he is dying a pauper among strangers.

  14. Take care Miss Evelyn does not see you until she is heartbroken about Philip Anson.

  15. Marianne was heartbroken anew at this unexpected departure.

  16. She is heartbroken not to be downstairs and I promised that after she had had her luncheon and nap you would go up and see her.

  17. His children died suddenly of a malignant fever and the heartbroken mother had followed them to the grave within a few weeks.

  18. In a moment the kind-hearted woman was on her knees beside the heartbroken girl, whom she gathered into her motherly arms, murmuring words of comfort all the while.

  19. For many years the heartbroken woman lived in Naples, where she had been most happy, feeding her soul with fire and tears.

  20. Again the young man returned to St. John without the vengeance he desired; well-nigh heartbroken with shame and disappointment.

  21. His friend was almost heartbroken to part with him, but there was no alternative.

  22. I have forsaken the world and its people, am heartbroken because of the unfaithful, and am weary.

  23. Now, if unity and agreement is not established among the believers, I will become heartbroken and the afflictions will leave a greater imprint upon me.

  24. The poor thing was heartbroken when Mezor was sent away from her, but she took comfort and hope in the thought of her baby that she would soon be able to clasp to her breast.

  25. Never had he seen in a woman's eyes a look of such heartbroken entreaty.

  26. And Allan, lying there smiling boyishly up at her, Allan seen for the first time in these usual-looking gray man-clothes, was like neither the marble Crusader she had feared nor the heartbroken little boy she had pitied.

  27. Phyllis wondered how much his mother's heartbroken adoration and pity might have had to do with making her son as hopeless-minded as he was.

  28. A heartbroken father was being torn by a wild passion, and what anger is more terrible than that caused by an injury to an offspring, whether of man or beast?

  29. She was very tired and almost heartbroken over what had just taken place.

  30. He recognized the voice in spite of the panting which shook it; a wild wail like that of a heartbroken child, coming closer to him like someone running: "Pierre!

  31. He broke into hysterical laughter, which stopped short and finished in a heartbroken whisper: "Pierre!

  32. Her father failed, and she was heartbroken at having to leave college; but that splendid man just stepped in and made it all right.

  33. The very silence served to increase the feeling of utter loneliness which swept over the weary, heartbroken lad, and for a moment it almost seemed to him as if any further efforts on his part were as useless as they were difficult.

  34. Indian John was forgotten, the few chores about the place were ignored, and for a time the heartbroken lad gave way to his sorrow for the loss of his mother, upon whose face he never was to look again.

  35. With the departure of Tom, however, there came the reaction, and for a few moments the heartbroken lad was almost overcome.

  36. The lodge-keeper, a prey to violent grief and heartbroken at his child's conduct, never breathed a word of reproach against her.

  37. He leaned back in the carriage, as the train rushed on through the early morning, and thought of the poor heartbroken woman at home, whose love for him had been so good and pure and noble, and his eyes filled with tears.

  38. Illustration: Several heartbroken gentlemen threatened to shoot themselves] "What's the sense of doing that?

  39. Mr. Maltby, pastor of the Congregational Church, happened to be passing the town hall Several heartbroken gentlemen threatened to shoot themselves "The celebrated Anderson Crow?


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heartbroken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crushed; dejected; desolated; heartbroken; inundated; melancholy; miserable; mournful; overcome; overwhelmed; prostrate; stricken; undone