heartrending
heart-rending

It must be one of the most heartrending sounds in the world.

For a long and heartrending moment, he stared at her.

And there was one of many heartrending stories about a doctor.

The little girl always seemed so sad, but this was heartrending.

You cannot imagine a more heartrending admission, and it will stay with me always.

He found it "the most heartrending scene that I ever witnessed".

And the way she tended the orphans in her care was heartrending.

It is simply too heartrending not to be true.

Now that's what I had to try to do in the midst of my own heartrending troubles.

It was a heartrending admission, but not one that she had time to dwell on.

And hopefully we can come up with a heartrending proposal for her."

Roberta let out what she hoped was a heartrending moan.

A wailing rose up, heartrending in its grief and loss.

The decision was not as heartrending as I had feared.

Tristan showed what he thought about it all by a series of heartrending sounds.

While it baked, the musicians began to play, wild heartrending dances.

The last heartrending duet of the opera was at its most poignant.

Fire tore him awake with a heartrending cry of agony.

When he smiled at her, his face lit with a heartrending handsomeness.

I won't bore you with the whole heartrending good-bye scene.

The girl's voice in the dark was heartrending.

These cases involve terrible, heartrending pain, which is also worthy of comment by this House.

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

For a heartrending moment, there was no answer.

"Thanks for the heartrending confession," I said, "but my list of suspects is down to one, and you're not on it."