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- adverb In a
brokenhearted manner.
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Examples
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We looked into the faces of our dispirited company, and smiled brokenheartedly.
Three Men in Line Michael Tusa 2012
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I, like most Packer fans, tearfully cheered you to the field at the start of that cold, snowy game, and brokenheartedly bid you adieu after your last throw (an interception) at Lambeau Field as a Packer.
Emily Howald: A Final Favre Farewell Emily Howald 2010
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I was * hopelessly* in love with a 7-year old when I was 5 – as in, wept brokenheartedly when my mother insisted that I was NOT “in love.”
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Finally, Robin let her sobs out, crying brokenheartedly.
Without Pity Ann Rule 2003
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Finally, Robin let her sobs out, crying brokenheartedly.
Without Pity Ann Rule 2003
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Master summoned me and brokenheartedly discussed the fact that the boy was now unsuited to the monastic hermitage life.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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Master summoned me and brokenheartedly discussed the fact that the boy was now unsuited to the monastic hermitage life.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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When she got into bed she buried her face in the pillow and wept brokenheartedly.
Winesburg, Ohio: a Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life 1919
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When she got into bed she buried her face in the pillow and wept brokenheartedly.
Adventure 1919
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"You will guard my Bianca, Agostino," he said to me, and I swore it fervently, as he bade me, whilst upon her knees beyond the bed, clasping one of his hands that had grown white as marble, Bianca was sobbing brokenheartedly.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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