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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:

McCourt is the pixie-faced, white-haired, thick-brogued raconteur who wrote Angela's Ashes , a Bildungsroman explaining how the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk from Limerick, Ireland, became the kind of man who could write a witty, heartbreaking memoir about being the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk, etc.
As potent as one of Beethoven's last string quartets, Mrs. Dalloway becomes a heartbreaking meditation on the evanescence of all things.
--the tension between how he regards himself and how the world regards him is heartbreaking.
(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.)
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.