heartbrokenly
- a word derived from heartbroken.
Example Sentences
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It was a foolish step, my coming here to see you," Miss Cooper complained heartbrokenly; "it places me in a bitterly cruel position.
From The Paternoster Ruby by Walk, Charles Edmonds
“Then you aren’t—?” she questioned heartbrokenly, “then you aren’t, at all?”
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel
And when she couldn’t she just dropped down against the bank on the lawn and sobbed and cried as heartbrokenly as Muffie might have done.”
From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.
Andy, by the way, had remained heartbrokenly passive during that whole week, because Weary had extracted from him a promise which Andy, mendacious though he had the name of being, felt constrained to keep intact.
From The Flying U Ranch by Bower, B. M.
The little girl's mother, sitting behind the stove, cried heartbrokenly.
From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Gates, Eleanor
