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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:

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.
(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.)
Every couple of years, Francis Ford Coppola's devoted fans--and such people still exist--do something heartbreaking: They see his new film.
--the tension between how he regards himself and how the world regards him is heartbreaking.
It is a stunning, heartbreaking novel, the darkest and most modern of his works, largely because it is the most bitter about modernity.