as in sorrow
deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved
I understand the heartbreak you must feel over your grandmother's death
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Recent Examples of heartbreak
All three have ended in heartbreak in the Wild Card round.
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Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
The alternative rock band sang about love, mental health, heartbreak and personal triumph, inspiring the colorful crowd.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
What begins as private heartbreak becomes a broader movement of hope and connection, showing how faith, love, and unity can bring light even to the darkest moments.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026
And despite last fall’s seven-game heartbreak, hope springs eternal from the Great North.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
The alternative rock band sang about love, mental health, heartbreak and personal triumph, inspiring the colorful crowd.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
What begins as private heartbreak becomes a broader movement of hope and connection, showing how faith, love, and unity can bring light even to the darkest moments.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026
And despite last fall’s seven-game heartbreak, hope springs eternal from the Great North.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for heartbreak
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartbreak
Noun
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Indeed, in Iran the slaughter of protesters by the Iranian Republican guards filled me with sorrow and outrage.—
Dr. Michael Good,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2026
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As the communities in Maui continue to rebuild their homes and their lives two years after the wildfires killed 102 people, the flooding added to the sorrow.—
Matt Gutman,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Billy Randolph had shaped them and how his death had altered their lives, responses came after long pauses and were choked with grief.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated March 27,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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Is such an existential shriek into the abyss, all while living in a society suffused by mind-numbing grief and nationalism, worth subjecting yourself to?—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2026
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But some congregants’ anguish over October 7th was compounded by dread about Israel’s brutal, indiscriminate response.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Accenting the anguish by bizarre apparent coincidence, less than two weeks later the National Basketball Rules Committee reinstated the dunk — it had been banned for nearly a decade at the amateur level.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Heartbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartbreak. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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