- past participle of break.
broken
Example Sentences
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Poor people are more vulnerable to everything—disease, hunger, broken infrastructure, economic shocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
However, it is the persistence of the heat this spring and summer that is remarkable and has broken numerous records.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The 10-year yield has recently broken free of a symmetrical triangle pattern, which tends to be a continuation pattern, and has been trending higher since the beginning of March.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
I’m fine, I told myself, but I worried my heart was broken by my past in L.A. and there was something medically wrong with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
The carpet was quite threadbare by now, the school full of broken hearts.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
