heart-wrenching

adjective

: very sad
a heart-wrenching story

Examples of heart-wrenching in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The lone exception is his dynamic with his father, a potent role of a man slowly losing hope, which affords Ejiofor a magnificently heart-wrenching thespian flex. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024 That final decision came after heart-wrenching victim-impact statements from King, Andrade, and other relatives of Nancy Jo Andrade. Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024 Then, in 2022, her father Yair died suddenly and unexpectedly, under heart-wrenching circumstances in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024 The report is interspersed with testimony from unidentified boarding school survivors across the United States, including heart-wrenching stories from schools in Michigan. Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for heart-wrenching 

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“Heart-wrenching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart-wrenching. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.

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