How to Use heartstring in a Sentence

heartstring

noun
  • This book tugs at all the heartstrings.
    Charlotte Observer, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Man, my heartstrings have been pulled so many times in the last week.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The most viral tweets are the ones that tug on our heartstrings.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 19 Mar. 2018
  • But the stuff that tugs at the heartstrings is what could make these devices stick.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Which is why this new line of candles is tugging at our heartstrings.
    Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 22 Sep. 2016
  • This will pull at your heartstrings but never leave you without hope.
    Newsweek Staff, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Walsh has never been much of a singer, at least in terms of a singer who grabs you by the heartstrings.
    Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
  • The movie not just pulls, but drags your heartstrings and makes a hurricane of your tears.
    Christine Giordano, Women's Health, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Perhaps many of the spots from our younger years tug more at our heartstrings than our stomachs.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
  • Watching the video back broke the couple's heartstrings.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There may be even greater reasons to put an ad that plucks the heartstrings in front of a broader crowd.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Their interactions tug on heartstrings and set us up to root for both when the creeps come in.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • Come on, even Jeep admitted that the episode tugged at their heartstrings!
    Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 7 Feb. 2018
  • And dammit, the producers are grabbing hold of our heartstrings right away.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Sep. 2024
  • As the violin strings are softly plucked, so are our heartstrings.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • Lunar eclipses tend to pull at our heartstrings and heighten passions.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But beyond that, the plot of each episode will reel audiences in and tug at their heartstrings.
    Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 9 Nov. 2018
  • That detail alone was enough to tug at the internet’s heartstrings.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Eminem's new music video will surely tug at the heartstrings.
    Daniela Avila, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Several scenes tug at the heartstrings.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Plus for a bonus, watch the music video complete with touching home-videos that will pull at your heartstrings.
    Town & Country, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Country songs are known for pulling at the heartstrings, and these songs are among the most emotional in the genre.
    Lee Brice, Southern Living, 6 July 2017
  • But the story strains far too hard for laughs while never managing to tug at the heartstrings.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
  • But these films grab hold of the heartstrings from the very beginning and never stop tugging.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2017
  • This simple story will tug at their heartstrings just enough to usher in a wave of relief at the end.
    Laura Denby, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Get ready for the first blockbuster of the summer that will certainly tug at your heartstrings.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Other videos pulled at my heartstrings, like the participant who opened up about the loss of his son.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
  • For many of those on Twitter, the loving gesture tugged at their heartstrings.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Out of all of these, Barnabas really pulled on our heartstrings.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Regardless of age, this is one Pixar flick that pulls on your heartstrings from start to finish.
    Meg Walters, EW.com, 19 June 2025

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