broken heart
devastating sorrow, especially from disappointment in love; heartbreak: When you're young, you think you'll never recover from a broken heart.
Origin of broken heart
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How to use broken heart in a sentence
If my broken heart was to blame, it has taken its bitter time, acting stealthily.
A recent study shows a correlation between natural disasters and “broken heart syndrome.”
Recent Study Links Occurrence of Natural Disasters to Increase of Medical Heartbreak | Rachel Hochhauser | April 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA French journalist named Vincent moves to Lisbon to escape the source of his broken heart, a woman named Irene.
Except Dee Dee—a 40-something New Yorker with a cynical and hopeless broken heart—has no epiphany.
Anne Heche’s Crazy New Movie, ‘That’s What She Said’ | Lorenza Muñoz | October 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut its nickname is much more evocative: broken heart Syndrome.
Did Penn State's Sex-Abuse Case Bring On the Death of Joe Paterno? | Casey Schwartz | January 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
He will die of a broken heart, and will plead against me at the judgment-seat.
Witness his conception, in The broken heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.
The Fatal Dowry | Philip MassingerNor did he support exile with dignity; he languished like Cicero when doomed to a similar fate, and died of a broken heart.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordHis parents died within a month of each other—one by the hand of violence, the other of a broken heart.
Alone | Marion HarlandFor a moment she thought of suicide, then the reflection that it would be set down to a broken heart arrested her.
The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet
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