heartbreak
great sorrow, grief, or anguish.
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How to use heartbreak in a sentence
The heartbreak isn’t from him not playing football anymore or anything like that.
Ten months after his death, David Forney’s number will be worn again at the Army-Navy game | Kareem Copeland | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostTo be a physician that has spent your whole life taking care of patients, holding patients’ hands when they’re at the end of their life, crying with the patient’s family, and to not be able to be with my father was the biggest heartbreak of all.
Think of Harrison Ford finding love with a replicant in Blade Runner or Joaquin Phoenix mending his heartbreak with a digital assistant in Her.
His grief is filtered through the breakup metaphor — a concept he borrowed from Qawwali music and Sufi poetry, both of which are “very big” on analogies of estrangement and heartbreak — but no less palpable.
Riz Ahmed knows his worth. With the gut-wrenching ‘Sound of Metal,’ he ensures you do, too. | Sonia Rao | December 3, 2020 | Washington Post“It’s a heartbreak looking for a place to happen,” says Lise Buyer, the founder of Glass V Group, a consultancy that provides advice about public listing.
Indeed, from these posts, the shooting seems to born out of that heartbreak.
The Homecoming Prince Who Tweeted His Killing Spree | Brandy Zadrozny | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter all, the biggest names in the art world have cultivated their craft through heartbreak and emotional strife.
Miley Cyrus Channels Her Bad Year Into Rave-Kid Art | Justin Jones | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe have to nurse heartbreak and betrayal and newfound fragile hope.
Cleveland Comes Crawling Back to LeBron: The Masochism of Rust Belt Chic | Arthur Chu | July 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmia, Louie's temporary girlfriend, is gone, leaving him to wallow in his heartbreak—at least for a few scenes.
Louie Attempts Rape (and Explores the ‘Nice Guy’ Phenomenon) | Amy Zimmerman | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut, at least with his new disco campaign ad, he'll be channeling Kanye West by adding some 808s to his likely heartbreak tonight.
There were plenty of failures, a lot of heartbreak and profanity, an occasional injury—but they kept going, and they got there.
Security | Poul William AndersonSomewhere in the bushes, someone began to play a kazoo, adding the final touch of melancholy and heartbreak to the music.
Pagan Passions | Gordon Randall GarrettIm sorry, said Lois, wondering at her power of suspending a heartbreak, but we havent a drop left in the house.
The Wayfarers | Mary Stewart CuttingWe need not consider how much struggle and heartbreak had gone into meeting that schedule.
Industrial Revolution | Poul William AndersonDavid M. Osborne backed a new self-binder, lost a million, and died of heartbreak.
The Romance of the Reaper | Herbert Newton Casson
British Dictionary definitions for heartbreak
/ (ˈhɑːtˌbreɪk) /
intense and overwhelming grief, esp through disappointment in love
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