broken
Example Sentences
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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.
If you have been hit by relentless rain and flooding this winter you might well be expecting the weather to have broken some records.
From BBC
These relics were set aside, and the digging resumed with the shout, “Great God! Here are the pieces of a broken bowl!”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
