broken-down
Example Sentences
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Broken-down buildings next to vacant lots; tackle practice on muddy ground at night, flying bodies floodlit by the full-beam lights of cars.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2017
Broken-down rides, hotels needing renovation, long queues at restaurants and shortened opening hours have dragged down visitor satisfaction, company documents show.
From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2015
Broken-down farm machines and piles of junk were strewn across the grounds.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
His line is the Broken-down Plunger, you know.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 by Various
Broken-down tennis players, one- legged skaters, dropsical gentlemen-riders, are to be met with hobbling on crutches along every highway of the Engadine.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
