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How to use the word heartbreaking in a Sentence?

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It was just … heartbreaking.

Claudia Hoyen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I never lose sight of the fact that a family has lost one of their loved ones that night, this whole situation is just really heartbreaking but respectfully, that’s all I’m going to be able to say on that.

Brandon Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a terrible crisis. We should be doing everything we can to give every single one of these patients the best chance of survival, it’s heartbreaking, and we must do better.

Laura Bray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were farm workers affected tonight; there were children on the scene at the incidents. This is a truly heartbreaking tragedy in our community.

Ray Mueller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think about my closest friends. If I go to another country and treat other people’s closest friends, while my friends struggle to see a doctor in the UK – that is really heartbreaking.

Eilidh Garrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Getty Images/AP Alec Baldwin’s going to say … ‘ I relied on these people and this is a horrible thing. It is heartbreaking and I ca n’t believe it happened to this family but I should n’t be on trial, ’.

Anne Bremner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be attacked and killed in the course of helping others is both heartbreaking and enraging for our department in ways I can not describe. Lieutenant Russo exemplified FDNY-EMS, she served this city for 25 years. She was a World Trade Center first responder. She was cited multiple times for her bravery and her life-saving work. And she was absolutely beloved on this job.

Laura Kavanagh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Knowing that your pet needs help and may not have the blood product they need — that is heartbreaking, and [it is] fixable if the community comes together.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I won't mince words -- the video you are about to watch is heartbreaking and is very tough to take in.

Dan Horrigan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Supreme Court has taken away the established, fundamental, constitutional right to abortion from millions of Americans. This is a cruel, dark and dangerous decision, what makes this decision so heartbreaking is that Americans had a clear and unequivocal constitutional right stripped away.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Not at all, kathleen Buhle was struggling under a massive drug addiction and that's heartbreaking and painful.

Kathleen Buhle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They solve all sorts of dogs - all sorts, you should hear some of these heartbreaking stories these guys go through to find these dogs homes. We’re very happy to be able to get some money to this group because they’ve done a lot for us and for a lot of people in Nashville.

Josef Newgarden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's very heartbreaking knowing that they had been killed that long ago and we never knew it. The bodies just dumped in the woods.

Debbie Brooks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is heartbreaking as a mom to think that any of our young people are making that decision knowing full well what it means, and I take responsibility and urgency in making sure that we can ease that decision because no child should ever have to think that way.

Michelle Wu

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's been a frustrating, heartbreaking, unnecessary challenge for a kid who has already overcome so much.

Mac Jaehnert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Wasn't it heartbreaking ? the little girl that said her wish was to be with her daddy, and then another said my wish is to go home, and then you can see it, those children really have suffered.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that the same nightmare we've been living -- with our Texas patients -- is now going to happen in Oklahoma is heartbreaking for us on the provider level.

Emily Wales

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These statistics are staggering, they're not only staggering, they're heartbreaking.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's heartbreaking to watch. … When you see in person the human suffering, and you see these little kids and moms leaving their houses with nothing [in] cold weather, it really has an effect on you, it's a tragedy what's happened there.

Victoria Spartz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is heartbreaking to remove the COVID funding, and we must continue to fight for urgently needed COVID assistance, but unfortunately that will not be included in this bill.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s devastating. It’s heartbreaking, it definitely stings. It hurts. It feels like we let our country down.

Hilary Knight

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is absolutely heartbreaking what is happening in Afghanistan, it's the first thing I think about when I wake up. It's the last thing I think about before I go to bed. As you say there are millions of Afghans suffering and in many ways, they're suffering, not for decisions they made but for decisions that others made.

Tom West

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The work force is stretched incredibly thin, and that is taking its toll, it's been frustrating and exhausting and heartbreaking for those that are on the front lines.

Jim Kaufman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s heartbreaking, i have seen tons of rising anxiety in both my children due to constant masking.

Alexis Telep

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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