She was brokenhearted when her boyfriend left her.
she was brokenhearted when the relationship ended
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If my random and unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation’s as a whole, then the debut of Donald Trump’s America has left some French triste — a bit sad, even brokenhearted, and also wary and vigilant.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025 And having already proven her scary-movie bona fides with last year’s Heretic, Thatcher does a lot of the heavy lifting here, and brings a real sense of brokenhearted bewilderment, existential dread, and eventually, an avenging-angel sense of righteousness to Iris.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025 Alice Hulme from Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire in the U.K. might not have gone through what Simpson has physiologically but there's no doubting she's brokenhearted following the death of her French Bulldog, Paddington.—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025 At the top of the third episode, the Jackal assumes the role of some dead rich person’s brokenhearted progeny, visiting a high-end German funeral home to extract sensitive information from its computer system.—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024 And what better place for a brokenhearted person to escape?—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024 On his confessional third studio album, Something to Give Each Other, Troye Sivan explores all the ways that love can be shared — and taken away — while offering a buoyant rallying cry for the brokenhearted.—Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023 No excess of sentiment whatsoever, though, good lord, there could have been, since the live musical accompaniment is a string of brokenhearted hits from the 1960s by songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David.—Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022 What if all the brokenhearted people living in the world agreed?—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
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