How to Use brokenhearted in a Sentence
brokenhearted
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One brokenhearted mother is one too many.
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Heidi Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
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The beautiful cat curled up and died the day after Houdini was put down, too brokenhearted to go on.
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Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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Use this opportunity to play around with fun accessories and costume jewelry that won’t leave you brokenhearted if they get lost or damaged.
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Jill Schildhouse,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2026
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Since Instagram was founded, in 2010, the brokenhearted and heart-eyed alike have pored over which pictures to post to attract a particular person’s attention.
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Annie Joy Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
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In the Netflix dramedy Too Much, a brokenhearted American, Jess, makes the move across the pond, inspired in part by daydreams of stately castles, rolling green hills and dashing gentlemen professing their ardent admiration.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Aug. 2025
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What can be dizzying about the collection is the way traditional themes of Yiddish song and Hebrew liturgy — lyrics of resilience in the face of persecution, prayers of consolation for the brokenhearted, Lamentations read on Tisha B’Av — are recast with the Palestinians as their protagonists.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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