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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:

It is a stunning, heartbreaking novel, the darkest and most modern of his works, largely because it is the most bitter about modernity.
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.
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.
That's the theme here, too, and it's extraordinarily potent, at times even heartbreaking.
A rather heartbreaking section argues that similar greed-based zoning has endangered the lives of firefighters.