broken
Example Sentences
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Putting up all those new data centers requires plenty of what builders call aggregate, and what the rest of us call rocks that have been broken into smaller rocks.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The scene is a giant movie screen broken up in sections and upon which is projected witty, fantastical background animation, while the characters are the live singers, dressed as though silent film stars.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
The structural bull case for South Korea has not broken.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Even with a bruised and broken hand, Caesar is powerful.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
