broken-down

Example Sentences

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He pushed constitutional reforms aimed at preventing any future slide into authoritarian rule, and to overhaul a "completely broken-down" system of public administration.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Why trade away Reaves in the prime of his career and keep a broken-down LeBron James? 2025-2026 will probably be his last season.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2025

These are not akin to the crude barracks used to house the Mexican guest workers known as braceros decades ago, nor are they the broken-down trailers associated with abuses of the H-2A program.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025

Finally, they located an old broken-down pirate taxi whose owner charged them four times the going rate.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer