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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:

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.
And when she glimpses defeat, her pain is truly heartbreaking.
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.
That's the theme here, too, and it's extraordinarily potent, at times even heartbreaking.
Newsweek 's Katrine Ames is the opera's most passionate advocate, calling the score "rich with color, by turns lush, frantic, heartbreaking, even funny."