broken
Example Sentences
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When people stayed, they fixed what was broken because they had no alternative.
Traditional voting patterns have “completely broken down,” he says.
In fact, the only bone I’ve ever broken is my thumb, in tenth grade, when a friend kicked a soccer ball into my hand at close range.
Ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said he was “very taken aback” by the rules being “not enforced and certainly just broken immediately.”
From Salon
A 40-year-old in 1980 who put a chunk of their nest egg into gold only would have broken even last year, two decades into retirement.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
