heartrending

How To Use heartrending In A Sentence

• A great deal of fuss was made about them, not only abroad, where all the enemies of England took a particular and most vicious pleasure in magnifying the so-called cruelties which were supposed to take place, but also in the English Press, where long and heartrending accounts appeared concerning the iniquities and injustices practised by the military authorities on the unfortunate Boer families assembled in the Camps. Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker
• Please don't hurt me again, otherwise i'll heartrending hurt.
• Heartrending were the wailings and shrieks and moanings which arose at this announcement, confirmed by the viewer and overmen. The Mines and its Wonders
• The frequently heartrending work of family judges often affects their health. Times, Sunday Times
• Thousands of people have been displaced and this is extremely sorrowful and heartrending.
• the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter
• Occasionally, there is a heartrending letter from a prisoner to relatives. Times, Sunday Times
• For understandable and heartrending reasons it has been brought forward. Times, Sunday Times
• A long, silvery howl echoed out over the trees, one of grief and heartrending sorrow.
• This last sequence was accompanied by the heartrending strains of Pablo Casals playing a Spanish folk song on the cello.