broken
Example Sentences
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Dan claimed he had not broken the law while donating in the UK.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Putting up all those new data centers requires plenty of what builders call aggregate, and what the rest of us call rocks that have been broken into smaller rocks.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The scene is a giant movie screen broken up in sections and upon which is projected witty, fantastical background animation, while the characters are the live singers, dressed as though silent film stars.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
A four-horse wagon is broken down, its back wheels cracked, spinning at odd angles.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
