She was brokenhearted when her boyfriend left her.
she was brokenhearted when the relationship ended
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The beautiful cat curled up and died the day after Houdini was put down, too brokenhearted to go on.—👁 Image Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026 Use this opportunity to play around with fun accessories and costume jewelry that won’t leave you brokenhearted if they get lost or damaged.—👁 Image Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026 Baby, a brokenhearted cat who arrived at the Kerrville Pets Alive shelter not too long ago, left a stable home for a noisy kennel environment after losing the most important person in his life.—👁 Image Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Oct. 2025 One brokenhearted mother is one too many.—👁 Image Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 In the Netflix dramedy Too Much, a brokenhearted American, Jess, makes the move across the pond, inspired in part by daydreams of stately castles, rolling green hills and dashing gentlemen professing their ardent admiration.—👁 Image Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025 What can be dizzying about the collection is the way traditional themes of Yiddish song and Hebrew liturgy — lyrics of resilience in the face of persecution, prayers of consolation for the brokenhearted, Lamentations read on Tisha B’Av — are recast with the Palestinians as their protagonists.—👁 Image Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025 If my random and unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation’s as a whole, then the debut of Donald Trump’s America has left some French triste — a bit sad, even brokenhearted, and also wary and vigilant.—👁 Image Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025 And having already proven her scary-movie bona fides with last year’s Heretic, Thatcher does a lot of the heavy lifting here, and brings a real sense of brokenhearted bewilderment, existential dread, and eventually, an avenging-angel sense of righteousness to Iris.—👁 Image David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
