Example Sentences

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Gullible and “naturally athletic” Kyle, the pair’s better half, bears the hurt of the inexcusable disloyalty and brokenheartedly tries to move on.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2020

Master summoned me and brokenheartedly discussed the fact that the boy was now unsuited to the monastic hermitage life.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

Brother Jasper buried his face in his hands and thought brokenheartedly of his own affliction.

From Orientations by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

When she got into bed she buried her face in the pillow and wept brokenheartedly.

From Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Anderson, Sherwood

Men climbed in the cars ahead of pale, helpless girls; an old lady clung to the unwilling arm of a convict-faced son; and a little newsboy cried brokenheartedly in the gutter.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.