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Torres recalls one particularly heart-wrenching scene, where Eunice takes her kids to an ice cream parlor after a devastating setback.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Returning was a heart-wrenching proposition—not least since Goggins’s on-screen persona of Rick—the twitchy, depressive boyfriend of the much younger Chelsea played by Aimee Lou Wood—shares a lot of the brooding misanthropy of his former broken self.
—Charlie Campbell / Koh Samui, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
To finish it off on a pay-per-view and cut a heart-wrenching emotional promo after is what people like.
—Jeremy Hanna, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
When powerful people enter the story, the whisper turns into heart-wrenching screams.
—Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Returning was a heart-wrenching proposition—not least since Goggins’s on-screen persona of Rick—the twitchy, depressive boyfriend of the much younger Chelsea played by Aimee Lou Wood—shares a lot of the brooding misanthropy of his former broken self.
—Charlie Campbell / Koh Samui, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
To finish it off on a pay-per-view and cut a heart-wrenching emotional promo after is what people like.
—Jeremy Hanna, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
When powerful people enter the story, the whisper turns into heart-wrenching screams.
—Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for heart-wrenching
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“Heart-wrenching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart-wrenching. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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