brokenness
Example Sentences
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Linda Westcarr, Ms Westcarr-Sabaroche's mother, told reporters outside court she believed Tape should have been sent to prison and that the case exposed the "brokenness of our justice system".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
And I feel like when I do see myself in a certain era, I feel strong then or I feel like I’m carrying everything really up here with a little bit of a brokenness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
In today’s faith communities, spiritual nurture and care is easily lost in political identity and outrage at the brokenness of our world.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
Even before my grandmother died, my mother and I always had this sort of brokenness, a fractured claim to connection.
From Salon ● May 12, 2024
I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
