How To Use Heartsick In A Sentence

  • I was heartsick because I just knew that this wasn't good for anybody, not for the guy who got shot, not for that marine, not for me.
  • Grieving, heartsick, I began dissolution proceedings and joined a women's divorce support group, sponsored by the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, searching for closure and healing.
  • And I was heartsick that my party and its progressive causes were disintegrating before my eyes.
  • ‘My wife and her church group were heartsick at seeing all the discards just wasted,’ replies the fisher.
  • Looking at the fine fleet of fishing vessels it would make you heartsick when you realize all the no-no and no-go regulations imposed on the fishermen's livelihoods.
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  • The audience (mostly straight) lapped it up, along with the bitchiest exchanges - warming to the zingers rather than the play's uneasy heartsickness.
  • These new works are a bold push forward, and they show the artist entering into the world of storytelling in the manner of a heartsick troubadour.
  • I am sure that I am one of many who felt heartsick at the news of the losses but look what we find now.
  • We are heartsick that this happened and are currently doing everything possible to correct the problem.
  • Instantly there flashed upon Judith the intuition that her uncle, heartsick and ill-affected toward the quarrel, had silently withdrawn until it should have been settled one way or another. Judith of the Cumberlands
  • Children, clinging to favorite toys, huddled on bows while heartsick adults maneuvered motorboats over submerged roads and through trees and bushes to reach higher ground.
  • When I taught in middle school, I used to be heartsick to see how kids were so bored in their social studies classes.
  • I'm just heartsick, because I love CRP, because it's allowing me to have the habitat out here.
  • Rigor mortis gave the heartsick survivor convincing evidence for burial.
  • I was heartsick over the loss of our baby, and you were glowing with the thought of leaving everything behind to race some stupid cars.
  • He is a genteel, intelligent man, who loved his life in Bohemia and is heartbroken and heartsick with his new life in America.
  • Hoping it will help her hefty heartsick pal, Bunny thinks it would be a ‘hoot’ to have Martha join a lonely hearts club and receive letters from other forlorn folks.
  • These new works are a bold push forward, and they show the artist entering into the world of storytelling in the manner of a heartsick troubadour.
  • And we the audience share a moment of recognition with this heartsick young man. Times, Sunday Times
  • too heartsick to fight back
  • Needless to say, I am heartsick over the mess I have made of my life.
  • Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans, mist - like, infold me from the search of eyes.
  • I took over care of my younger sisters and younger brother, and of course of my father who was heartsick over the loss of that beautiful mother of mine.
  • Democratic politicians make somber, seemingly heartsick speeches denouncing the administration in increasingly vituperative language.
  • Their world, as expressed in Welcome Interstate Managers, is one of heartsick teenagers, repressed office workers, the glories of high school football, and giddy suburban house parties.
  • What really makes them heartsick these days, however, is that they also have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues, particularly in Europe.
  • This, the Mariner's heartsick and acknowledged disgust for non-human life, showed that he had not yet learned his lesson nor completed the penance that Life-in-Death had prepared for him.
  • I'm absolutely heartsick at the never-ending stream of ghastly news and pictures from New Orleans.
  • Morrissey's heartsick legato croon is reassigned to four women and two men, who deliver anything from keening, primal unaccompanied wails to swing-era harmonies. Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives
  • And she felt heartsick and unable to understand the loss. Christianity Today
  • In this case, not a lot has changed in the past millennium and a half, except that we're more likely to be wearied by tedium, ennui or heartsickness than by physical fatigue.
  • Though all the authors have spoken with other writers heartsick at poorly illustrated books, she's never been disappointed.
  • Only the heel and rabid younger officers wanted to continue, and even they were heartsick.

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