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
Maura’s heartbreak might be the image we’re left with, but Rob took no prisoners.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
But only four games into her junior campaign came heartbreak.
—Krystle Rich, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
But just thinking about this leather jacket and his rings and stuff, expressing your emotions and talking about your heart and your heartbreak doesn’t necessarily fit into the idea of masculinity.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
His brother suspected the heartbreak weighed heavily on Jackson.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for heartbreak
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
But only four games into her junior campaign came heartbreak.
—Krystle Rich, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
But just thinking about this leather jacket and his rings and stuff, expressing your emotions and talking about your heart and your heartbreak doesn’t necessarily fit into the idea of masculinity.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
His brother suspected the heartbreak weighed heavily on Jackson.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for heartbreak
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartbreak
Noun
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Giving in, in this case, is drowning his sorrows in drink.—
Christina Grace Tucker,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Such trickery to assign great value to low-worth materials also underpins the surprise ending for The Girl Who Cried Pearls, which follows a poor boy falling in love with a girl overwhelmed by sorrow to the point her tears turn into pearls.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With no answers, her parents’ intense grief settled into silence, and her three brothers grew up not knowing what happened to their 3-year-old sister.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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He was stuck deep in the recesses of shock and grief at the loss of the boy who’d labored by his side for so long, a boy who’d never harmed anyone and who had sat behind the wheel of that silver Saab from sunrise to sundown for the family.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Putting private anguish and public witnessing into forceful tension, Paksa fashioned a productively ambivalent rubric for the artist under authoritarianism.—
Daniel R. Quiles,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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The discomfort of boredom, even the anguish of it, can spur us into flights of imagination, resourcefulness, and invention.—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Heartbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartbreak. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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