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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost heartbreaking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling that is very sad or emotionally moving, but not quite to the point of being fully heartbreaking.
Example: "The story of the abandoned puppy was almost heartbreaking, leaving everyone in the room teary-eyed."
Alternatives: "nearly tragic" or "almost devastating".
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It all had a simplicity that was almost heartbreaking.
Some of the episodes are ripely satirical, others almost heartbreaking.
"It's almost heartbreaking to think it may cease to be," she said.
As a companion-piece to his wartime novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, it's almost heartbreaking.
A further innovation is so clever that its total uselessness is almost heartbreaking.
Some passages acquire an almost heartbreaking luminescence, others a terrifying edge.
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Almost 25 years ago, I began the most painful, heartbreaking journey of my life.
It's almost too heartbreaking to look.
These are almost as heartbreaking a sight as the body-bagged corpses that once owned them.
The thought that Modric has played his last game for Tottenham is a dispiriting one for Spurs fans; the thought that Roman Pavlyuchenko has not is almost too heartbreaking to contemplate.
What I do know is that the subsequent backlash against the mother who "let" her child into the enclosure is almost more heartbreaking than the situation at hand.
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