How To Use Heartrending In A Sentence
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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
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Please don't hurt me again, otherwise i'll heartrending hurt.
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Heartrending were the wailings and shrieks and moanings which arose at this announcement, confirmed by the viewer and overmen.
The Mines and its Wonders
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The frequently heartrending work of family judges often affects their health.
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Thousands of people have been displaced and this is extremely sorrowful and heartrending.
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the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter
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Occasionally, there is a heartrending letter from a prisoner to relatives.
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For understandable and heartrending reasons it has been brought forward.
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A long, silvery howl echoed out over the trees, one of grief and heartrending sorrow.
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This last sequence was accompanied by the heartrending strains of Pablo Casals playing a Spanish folk song on the cello.
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It is truly heartrending, because we are so powerless over somebody else's pain.
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Though the film makes relatively few gestures toward contextualizing the band's place in the music of the '90s the band's members scorn the term grunge as a reductive buzzword, there are a few heartrending clips of The Most Dangerous Line of Latitude on the Planet Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic.
Slate Magazine
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But the devastation already wrought in it is heartrending to contemplate.
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Or another heartrending blow against the integration of the family unit?
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Behind them were the still madder, swifter, more terrible waters, coming in sudden thuds, in furious drives, eddying and sculping and rearing in an orgy or remorseless and heartrending destruction.
Waysiders
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Slowly, the images of rehearsal give way to the ultimate performance, a heartrending yet minimalist staging of original choreography.
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The next morning her 'inbox was full' of heartrending pleas.
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Edward, my young English cavalryman, was … She trailed off, affected as ever by her heartrending memories of him.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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Over the squalor, just as typically, broods a heartrending tenderness.
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The images are heartrending, the interviews profound, and the sound design merits special mention.
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The cantor's solo is the most passionate, heartrending music of the liturgical year.
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But it tells the most heartrending story.
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For others the prospect of the radical change which must be wrought is too heartrending to be contemplated and the comfort of the known is preferable.
Some Views on South Africa's Future