heartrending in English

adjective
1
(of a story or event) causing great sadness or distress.
At the moment of judgement, some displayed surprise, some anger, others a heart-rending sadness.

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1. The poverty of those fellow Christians was heartrending.

2. I heard the most heartrending screams and moans.

3. Please don't hurt me again, otherwise i'll heartrending hurt.

4. Heartrending, Rob thought; he could hardly bear to look.

5. If so, where does the feeling of heartrending come from?

6. We accepted the invitation, even though leaving our Spanish brothers was heartrending.

7. Don't you find it heartrending to see him get bullied like that?

8. They observe the heartrending problems of poverty, disease, and violence.

9. It is really heartrending to see his own child sentenced.

10. But the devastation already wrought in it is heartrending to contemplate.

11. Time dulls the most exquisite emotions and softens the most heartrending grief.

12. I'm loving you silently, but you do not know, I'm so heartrending and painful.

13. Should I really bid adieu to this summer? Notwithstanding how heartrending the sorrow of parting is.

14. (Jeremiah 52:3-5, 12-14) No other city in history has been lamented in expressions so touching and heartrending.

15. Still, I was not prepared for the heartrending screams of Loida, my third child, as she came into the world.

16. Astromeda is a turn-based, story-driven RPG that features fourth-wall elements and humor following with a heartrending story and an original soundtrack

17. Think about how heartrending it must have been for him to bind Isaac’s hands and feet and have him lie on the altar that Abraham himself had built.