Anguish after a romantic split

Usage examples of heartbreak.

How vulnerable and susceptible she would have been to her one true friend Blackie in her heartbreak, loneliness, and despair.

The old ways your grandfolks taught you could lead to heartbreak or worse in totally different country.

All over hell and gone, bring their heartbreak right here to the Meadows family, knowing that the pain will be helped.

Thoroughbred, standardbred, and quarter-horse racing, while exciting, led to heartbreak back at the shed row.

His own heartbreak over Charles was no less than what Abigail suffered, as his later writings disclose, but he had not softened in his decision to renounce his son.

Commonwealth on Schtitt's old BMW, bound for Evangeline's Low-Temperature Confections in Newton Center, right at the bottom of what usually gets called Heartbreak Hill, Schtitt intense-faced and leaning forward like a skier, his white scarf whipping around and whipping Mario's face, in the sidecar, as Mario too leans way forward into their downhill flight, preparing to whoop when they bottom out.

Leo forced himself not to increase Joachim's grief by burdening him with his own heartbreak.

For those long months I faced my father and my helpless mother by the moment and saw their heartbreak not to mention despisal from my younger sisters--and then I had a still-born boy on the loveliest day of a beautiful spring.

Two heartbreaks at the same time seemed a bit much, at the age of sixteen!

Maria Ana wanted to be a dancer, took the train to San Francisco, and after years of strenuous work, heartbreak, and small roles in the city ballet company, she hurt her back and wound up teaching in an Arthur Murray studio.

The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

At some point in its twisted history, Heartbreak Hotel had been what it still looked vaguely like, a little red schoolhouse, and so it had a divided four-holer outhouse, two for the boys, two for the girls.

If I had been there for you when you were a teenager, and you were first dealing with these kinds of heartbreaks and difficulties, I could have guided you, helped you through.

She was there for your first crushes and heartbreaks, your party dresses and spins at sophisticated states like anomie.

Later, at age four, each winter Lamai took her own turn being the adored one, spending the better part of a season taking out on a younger sister the heartbreaks she had received the year before.