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Example sentences for: heartbreaking

How can you use “heartbreaking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But there is a primary virtue to this book, subtler than its other traits, and this primary virtue is to be, ever so quietly, heartbreaking.
It is a stunning, heartbreaking novel, the darkest and most modern of his works, largely because it is the most bitter about modernity.
As potent as one of Beethoven's last string quartets, Mrs. Dalloway becomes a heartbreaking meditation on the evanescence of all things.
The movie was beautifully restrained and accurate with respect to clothing--the peasant blouses, the swinging skirts, the smooth, side-parted hair, the garter belts and capacious underpants from a time before spandex were all deliciously heartbreaking, never exaggerated for laughs.
The counterspin: It's the heartbreaking tale of third-place finisher Greg Norman, who, after blowing a six-stroke lead in the tournament's final round three years ago, choked away his lead again this year.