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How to use heartstrings in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word heartstrings? Here are some examples.

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In fact this is a very romantic comic, and none of it's overplayed or plucks the heartstrings unnecessarily.
It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings.
She had never seen this side of him before and she felt a tug at her heartstrings which alarmed her quite a bit.
It reached deep inside, plucking at the heartstrings, moving everyone's souls.
I am sick of hearing those socialist MPs playing the heartstrings on the subject of drinking.
Even though she was trying to tug on Gilligan's heartstrings, her feelings were a mirror of his own.
Why can't a boy tug at America's heartstrings without facing petty locker-room humiliation from the viewing public?
It was clearly designed to tug the heartstrings, but the audience's only interest was in whether her nose was up to the job.
They unabashedly explain the techniques they use to tug at viewers' heartstrings.
In addition to the message, A Christmas Carol is unadulterated theatre magic designed to yank at the heartstrings.
And so The Wild Boy is a sad novel, tugging the heartstrings with some of the rhapsodic lachrymosity that felled Little Nell.
Why must he tug on my heartstrings, moving me to tears, when there could be no redemption, no saving me?
The problem with weepy movies much of the time is that they're made to tug at your heartstrings, and they use every trick in the book to do so.
This plodding, wandering, disconnected story pulls out every melodramatic stop to tug at your heartstrings.
The tragedy of the past is not recreated through a deliberate manipulation of the reader's heartstrings.
It certainly shouldn't tug at the heartstrings, satisfy the mind and thrill visually all at the same time.
Tailoring dessert to tug at your family's heartstrings will really put you on a pedestal.
The emotions always seems real and spontaneous rather than cunningly manipulated to pull out the heartstrings.
Has the world cottoned on to my gentle wit, my innate sense of style, or my ability to tug at the emotional heartstrings so dextrously?
The innocence pulled at the heartstrings as one imagined children, families, and friends who had lost their loved ones in a cruel way.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Spirits that entwine one's heartstrings with tender touch, yet are heavier fetters, more oppressive than leaden weights.
Besides, though Cassy had laughed, there had been a tugging at her heartstrings.
Her heartstrings were at a dangerous stretch, she quivering at the point of tears.
Instead of this, I have to wait for you, a prey to fears that tear at my heartstrings.
The Colonel would have given her his heartstrings if Polly had required them.
It is only by the heartstrings that men can be led and women alone can lead them.
The Villa boss sends his side out against Fulham tomorrow but there won't be any pulled heartstrings.
Accept my little pres. Play on her heartstrings pursestrings too.
I have had no other success that pulled at my heartstrings like that one.
And the pathos of it and the tragedy is that they are tied by their heartstrings.
But when a poet gets into the habit of using his heartstrings to make chords for his lyre, he may thrum upon them as much as he will, without any great pain to himself.
Oh, when I think that I will never see him again I feel as if a great brutal hand had twisted itself among my heartstrings, and was wrenching them.
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