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Example sentences for: broken

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(The story was broken in Salon , a fact you could learn everywhere but in the NYT 's story, which merely cites "an on-line magazine's disclosure."
When Chatterbox wrote the earlier item, he was unaware that even before the New Times L.A. scoop, Dan Turner of the Los Angeles Business Journal had broken another piece of the Staples Center story--namely, that the sports arena had contacted "the teams, concessionaires and various corporate sponsors" connected to the Staples Center and asked them "to buy ads in the Sunday magazine; the ads themselves were sold by the Times 's advertising department."
The Stone of Destiny and the Scottish crown jewels were stolen, and Scotland’s Great Seal was broken up.
A section was broken out of it at some time, and only the geometric patterns are visible from ground level: Decoration not in view includes faces with staring eyes.
It has been explored in books such as Richard D. Kahlenberg's Broken Contract and John Jay Osborn's The Paper Chase and One L , a first-year-law-student memoir by future novelist Scott Turow.