Words similar to heartbreaking

Example sentences for: heartbreaking

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

(A heartbreaking story, and I must say, I bitch more about having to help my son with his homework than she does about narrowly saving her boy from an experimental lobotomy at Johns Hopkins.)
This was a heartbreaking decree for the islanders to obey in light of Bermuda’s close personal and family ties with the people of Virginia and other American colonies.
And when she glimpses defeat, her pain is truly heartbreaking.
As fiction, it's banal: Steven Spielberg couldn't have written a more helpfully linear screenplay, or given us the eyes of a more heartbreaking innocent to view it through.
Newsweek 's Katrine Ames is the opera's most passionate advocate, calling the score "rich with color, by turns lush, frantic, heartbreaking, even funny."