busted
Example Sentences
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"Immediately, we were comfortable with each other, and we jacked with each other, and we busted each other's chops, and we laughed a lot," he recalled.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Pei’s firm—show dystopian scenes: busted windows, tossed rooms and graffitied walls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Wildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a skin-crawling haul worth more than $100,000 on the black market for exotic bugs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
ButTwig busted out laughing and gave me a thumbs-up from across the room.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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