Sentence example with the word 'heartrending'

heartrending

affecting, agonizing, consuming, dire, doleful, grievous, heartbreaking, heartwounding, moving, piteous, pitiful, regrettable, tormenting, touching

Definition adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish

Last update: June 8, 2015


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Italy, intellectually first among the peoples, was now politically and practically last; and nothing to her historian is more heartrending than to watch the gradual extinction of her spirit in this age of slavery.   [Please select]

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Cosette uttered a heartrending cry.   [Please select]

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And heartrending scenes.   [Please select]

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He had lost one of his children in the fire, and the details had been heartrending.   [Please select]

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From the pit at their feet rose a gurgling and heartrending appeal for help.   [Please select]

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"Yes, Tawney-eye," said Leonore, in heartrending tones, "it isn't a good day at all."   [Please select]

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