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How to pronounce heartstrings in English?

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Type of compassion, compassionateness, love


many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings.

Examples of heartstrings

heartstrings
The going gets wet at times, but if you have heartstrings, they will be plucked.
From the time.com
The Calder did not drag out the adagios, and it did not tug at the heartstrings.
From the latimes.com
If you want to tug their heartstrings, then stirred them with moving true story.
From the economist.com
This adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel is sure to tug on your heartstrings.
From the france24.com
The gathering in the VIP box was stunning, and yanked hard at the heartstrings.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
It can tug at your heartstrings and make you doubt yourself and your decisions.
From the stltoday.com
It really tears at your heartstrings when you see how many of them have limps.
From the time.com
They seem to know just how to pluck our heartstrings in the most piercing way.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The package is total, tickling the funny bone and tugging on the heartstrings.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Your deepest feelings of love and compassion; "many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings"
  • Count Three & Pray is an album by the New Wave band Berlin released in 1986. It featured the hit single "Take My Breath Away".
  • Heartstrings is a 2009 British animated short film directed by Rhiannon Evans at the University of Wales in Newport. It tells the story of two stop-motion figures made from string, who fall in love; their love is represented by a red string that connects them at the heart.
  • Heartstrings was the seventh and final solo album released by Canadian singer-songwriter Willie P. Bennett and was released on CD by Bnatural in 1998 (Bnatural 0998).
  • The tendons once thought to brace the heart. [15th-19th c.]; One's deepest emotions or inner feelings. [from 16th c.]
  • (heartstring) Singular form of heartstrings