How to Use heartbreak in a Sentence
heartbreak
noun- I understand the heartbreak you must feel over your grandmother's death.
- He recently suffered a string of romantic heartbreaks.
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And, so, our heartbreak does feel good in a place like that.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022 -
Has the ratio of heartbreak to hope tilted in your novels?
— Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022 -
This smooth song about heartbreak gives me real Portishead vibes and warms up.
— Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024 -
After witnessing enough heartbreak in his life, Nate swears love isn’t in the cards for him.
— Leah Campano, Seventeen, 14 Sep. 2022 -
The heartbreak and the love because she's seen as the Serpent Queen and this villain.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022 -
This is the way modern heartbreak occurs, not with a bang but with a video call, and the brisk exchange of two-factor authentication codes.
— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022 -
The album acknowledges that state of feeling broken inside after a heartbreak.
— Griselda Flores, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2022 -
The teacher and mother was later found murdered, prompting heartbreak and outrage from runners around the country.
— Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2022 -
Riseborough starts as a West Texas mother who wins the lottery and drinks it away just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak.
— Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022 -
These titles are genuinely insightful about the pain of heartbreak, but affirm that love remains worth pursuing.
— Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022 -
Even then, your heartbreak won’t suddenly become any easier to bear, Dr. Orbuch says.
— Jenna Ryu, SELF, 23 Sep. 2024 -
Young people share deeply personal and vulnerable moments of heartbreak in TikTok's short-form videos.
— Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022 -
It’s Whishaw’s August, with his lifelong love for Ono requited in friendship but not romance, who’s the film’s figure of heartbreak.
— Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022 -
Selma Blair felt 'heartbreak' after learning that someone was sending death threats to Drew Barrymore under her name.
— Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022 -
Her music is upbeat and bubbly, but her great skill lies in turning moments of heartbreak and adversity into powerful pop confessionals.
— Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024 -
But the humor is right next to the heart and the heartbreak.
— Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 12 May 2023 -
The heartbreak of war and the split between North and South lingers.
— Brittani Samuel, ELLE, 15 Nov. 2022 -
There’s some kind of loss and that is the heartbreak of the whole series.
— Elisa Wouk Almino, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023 -
The dream season ends in heartbreak for the Horned Frogs.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2022 -
The week was full of other mishaps on top of heartbreak.
— Reina Abrevaya, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022 -
Many roads end in heartbreak, but some paths lead to true love.
— Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023 -
A lot of pain, a lot of heartbreak, a lot of suffering.
— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023 -
And as with many breakups, the longer the relationship, the deeper the heartbreak.
— Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023 -
There is a range of harms and heartbreak alleged in the filings.
— Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024 -
There are no words to describe the heartbreak and grief of losing a child.
— Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023 -
And this time, for Kimball, there’d be no more heartbreak.
— Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023 -
For Marist Catholic girls soccer, the end of the season had become a time of heartbreak.
— oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2022 -
But that doesn’t mean the heartbreaks she’s experienced in the past don’t still sting.
— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
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