Example sentences for: broken

How can you use “broken” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So is stamping a negative description, in condemnatory scarlet letters, across an opponent's picture: "Broken Promises" on taxes.

  • Prudie is not suggesting you adopt the national deformity of Britain, the stiff upper lip, but that you steep yourself in your regrets and then exit feeling stronger in the broken places.

  • In his masterpiece, The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli offers a rather pessimistic view on human nature, in which ‘love is held by a chain of obligation which, since men are bad, is broken at every opportunity for personal gain’.

  • spoked (of a prisoner-victim) forced to use a wheelchair (with spoked wheels) because his legs have been broken.

  • Seven experts in conservation and pathology entered the royal vault in Weimar by night on the pretext that one of the clasps on Goethe's sarcophagus had broken and his remains might deteriorate.


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