BROKEN in a Sentence
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300 example sentences for BROKEN, such as:
1. The strap of my bag is broken.
2. He escaped with only a broken arm.
3. Neither watch works,they're both broken.
4. He was only a little old man and broken.
5. He had to keep his broken arm in a sling.
2. He escaped with only a broken arm.
3. Neither watch works,they're both broken.
4. He was only a little old man and broken.
5. He had to keep his broken arm in a sling.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BROKEN
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broken
a. thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
a. tamed or trained to obey
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "I hope Zeena ain't broken anything she sets store by," she called after him as he turned the greys toward home.
2 She stood silent a moment, drooping before him like a broken branch.
3 The passion of rebellion had broken out in him again.
4 A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb.
5 Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
6 He's been broken hearted because he thinks I'm in love with Brent or Stuart or Cade.
7 He told Ellen privately that it was a broken heart that made Scarlett so irritable and listless by turns.
8 But even with this loss on the top of the others, the South's spirit was not broken.
9 Now and again, the quiet was broken sharply by the crack-cracking of musket fire in the last line of defenses.
10 The telegraph wires were still, no trains came in on the one remaining railroad from the south and the mail service was broken.
11 He was only a little old man and broken.
12 They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation.
13 Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.
14 Hoping to find jewelry buried with the dead, the Yankee soldiers had broken open vaults, dug up graves.
15 God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt that she owed Him nothing at all now.
Example Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1 A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
2 The police gained access through a broken window.
3 The two West African states had broken off relations two years ago.
4 Once already heals by the needle jianzha broken fingertip, whose horizon have you gone to.
5 Although the relationship is no longer as concerned about it, but how can you say broken off.
6 When I heard him speaking such broken English, I knew he was not a native American.
7 Never make fun of people who speak broken English.
8 He had to keep his broken arm in a sling.
9 She was taken to hospital with a broken arm and ribs.
10 He escaped with only a broken arm.
11 The strap of my bag is broken.
12 Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken.
13 Thought always spent in cigarettes, total love in alcohol broken.
14 Don't walk on that broken glass with bare feet.
15 Neither watch works,they're both broken.