How to Use heartsick in a Sentence

heartsick

adjective

• The word that comes to mind when watching a de Araújo feature is heartsick.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
• Imagine talking to your most heartsick friend, the one who simply cannot get over her ex.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
• One of my countless midnights on a two-lane country road, maybe, when the approaching headlights belonged to a drunk driver, or a trucker on the cusp of sleep, or a heartsick teenager composing a text to an ex.
  — Brian Laidlaw, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2026
• Perhaps too good for his own good, Lucas moves among jangling psychedelia, heartsick pastorals, and radio-ready rock, as if forever searching for a way out of his attic studio or his parents’ spare bedroom.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 23 May 2026
• Harris has taken the religious patina of Alice Walker’s tale—most chiefly the Christian God, to whom Celie writes her heartsick journal entries after she is separated from her beloved sister, Nettie, by the monstrous Pa and the vindictive Mister—and dirties it, wisely.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 June 2026