How to Use tearjerker in a Sentence

tearjerker

noun
  • I'm not in the mood to see a tearjerker. Let's watch something funny instead.
  • While this may not sound like a huge tearjerker of a movie, just wait.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Make sure to have tissues on hand for this touching tearjerker.
    — Women's Health, 25 May 2023
  • In honor of its birthday, here are the stars whose hearts still go on for the tearjerker.
    — Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In honor of its birthday, here are the stars whose hearts still go on for the tearjerker.
    — Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Is this a deeply sad, award-winning tearjerker of a drama?
    — James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
  • Who recently asked for twin dog-as-best-friend-but-end-of-life tearjerkers?
    — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 24 May 2020
  • But once the story has nowhere to go but a tearjerker denouement, its world seems rather thin.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
  • In honor of its milestone birthday, here are the stars whose hearts still go on for the tearjerker.
    — Nigel Smith, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Bay’s tearjerker was enough to keep him safe, though Dan Marshall wasn’t so lucky.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2022
  • This ballad is short but very sweet and, honestly, a tearjerker.
    — Town & Country, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This is one of the festival’s true tearjerkers — bring tissues.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And many have mentioned that pretty much any scene that features Ling is a tearjerker.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Made of stainless steel, it's engraved with a tearjerker message and a photo frame to keep them close.
    — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2023
  • The tearjerker ballad, which Bolton co-wrote with Doug James, was an apt choice for the spot.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 June 2022
  • This tearjerker is inspired by the life of the life of physicist Stephen Hawking.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 23 June 2020
  • But like any Hollywood tearjerker, there's at least a shot at a happy ending.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Van, already maimed, could sacrifice herself so that her friends and beloved Tai may live -- that would be a tearjerker.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
  • This episode isn’t a tearjerker, and the show’s loyal watchers will appreciate the break from the tissue box.
    — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 15 June 2018
  • Remember Me’ song was a tearjerker on the big screen and even more so in Alexander’s rendition.
    — Allison Klein, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Far from signaling misery, crying can be a source of pleasure, as when people pay good money to read a tearjerker or watch a three-hankie movie.
    — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This tearjerker of a ballad from country music duo Waycross tells the story of a high school football player who joins the marines.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 23 Mar. 2022
  • One of the apparent counterexamples is easy to explain, the tearjerker.
    — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • On You) returns to the small screen in a tearjerker about the lifelong friendship between three women on the cusp of turning 40.
    — Time, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In other words, for a story to be considered a true tragedy (not just a tearjerker or a horror), the protagonist must end up either dead or better off dead.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Among their LPs, Pepper is not the most moving (only two tearjerkers) or the most consistent (at least two space-fillers).
    — Tim De Lisle, Newsweek, 14 May 2017
  • From the funny to the heartwarming to the downright tearjerkers, here are a bunch of our favorite celebrity posts from this Mother’s Day.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 15 May 2017
  • Somewhat of a tearjerker, this a multigenerational tale in which a grandmother helps her granddaughter learn to be comfortable in her own skin.
    — Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
  • Like Oprah in Los Angeles, Thompson was the tearjerker-question asker.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The coming-of-age tearjerker follows their relationship as Landon learns that Jamie is living with leukemia and nearing the end of her life.
    — Jen Juneau, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025

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