busted up
Example Sentences
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“When’s the last time the feds busted up a card game? The 1920s?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Kosteniuk as White allows her queenside to be busted up and renounces castling in exchange for the bishop pair and a half-open b-file, but neither works to her advantage in the ensuring play.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
In addition to destroying command posts, bridges, ammo dumps, and other large, fixed targets, HiMARS has also busted up Russian artillery batteries, in some cases a minute after the Russians fired their rockets.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2022
But then my dad dies, and this guy steps up like nobody in my life because everybody else was busted up.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
I busted up the stairs but stopped like I hit a brick wall.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
