Example sentences for: fractured

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

  • Didion, in other words, has written a fast-paced story, not just her usual series of fractured "stories."

  • The other day, Reid Collins, a news presenter on CNN, used the expression the wheres and the whyfors , which, as far as I know, constitutes a fractured idiom in the category of I could care less . Hook has an entry for A.D./B.C.

  • The book concludes in orthodox multiculturalism and a surprisingly bitter estimate of America's democratic potential: "America approached the century's end as fractured along social, racial, ethnic, economic, gender, and regional lines as it had been in all but a few moments in its history; with a culture so diverse and so contentious that it seemed to lack any coherence or shape; with declining faith in its government, its leaders, and its principal institutions."

  • Walkman may be a piece of fractured English, but the term has become as generic and widely recognized as Xerox or Coke.

  • Though the doctors did every X-ray and blood test in the book, they somehow overlooked the critical step of keeping him flat to protect his fractured spine.


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