heart-rending
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- heart-rendingly adverb
Example Sentences
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That leaves IVF patients with the heart-rending decision of when to stop trying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
But the fourth episode is just as good — maybe even better — featuring a heart-rending turn from Tremarco as the mom trying to hold it together.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025
Yousuf Abubakr, a UC Berkeley graduate student in mechanical engineering, said heart-rending images on social media of the suffering of Palestinian civilians prompted him to join the movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024
Oversight of what was the UK's largest opencast coalmine has been described as a case of "epic mismanagement" with "heart-rending" impacts for local people.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024
Elizabeth’s heart-rending eloquence failed to move the judges from their settled conviction in the criminality of the saintly sufferer.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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