tear-jerker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She said the latter book was a tear-jerker but a childhood favourite, which she recently shared with her husband, John Playfair.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
That all changed in September after she used an artificial intelligence song generator to transform one of her poems into a tear-jerker called “How Was I Supposed to Know?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
It’s the kind of deliciously painful tear-jerker that’s hard to write and even harder to believably pull off, but it’s also not surprising that this particular pairing will break your heart so beautifully.
From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025
Patrick Swayze says his new double-hanky tear-jerker “Ghost” was his heaviest role ever.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2023
"All right," I muttered savagely, "let's go and get a tear-jerker to write!"
From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest
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