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Examples
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The survivors are heart-broken, so many people try to cheer them up and help them to rebuild their home.
Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Stories of the survivors from Typhoon Morakot 2009
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I'd have been heart-broken when my daughter demanded, around age 12, to travel to school alone if she hadn't had a younger sister whose little hand I could hold for several additional years as we marched up the avenue.
On School Days, 45 Minutes of Brigadoon Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
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I think he was "heart-broken" (badly) and that contributited to his demise.
Field & Stream's Best Hunting Story Contest: Week Three! 2009
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To all sensitive and spiritual men and women come times of anguish and tears and self-revolt, when they are confounded and heart-broken by the physical aspect of love.
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I do enjoy taking game that I think is a trophy in my book, but not heart-broken if I eat that tag.
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I think he was "heart-broken" (badly) and that contributited to his demise.
Field & Stream's Best Hunting Story Contest: Week Three! 2009
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And, as she was borne away, she set up a soft wailing like that of a heart-broken child.
CHAPTER XXIX 2010
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She appeared quite heart-broken over the discovery, but recovered her spirits by coiling down tackles and halyards and all stray ropes.
Chapter 39 2010
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His throat was afflicted by rigid spasms, his mouth opened, and in a heart-broken cry bubbled up his loneliness and fear, his grief for Kiche, all his past sorrows and miseries as well as his apprehension of sufferings and dangers to come.
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I do enjoy taking game that I think is a trophy in my book, but not heart-broken if I eat that tag.
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