busted
Example Sentences
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Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026
“If you went to the hospital with a busted knee, they would fix it, and that would cost more than an IVF cycle.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
“I lived in Vegas for almost a year, busted my ass to slowly build back up kind of a career in a sense,” he explains.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026
Multilingual scripts, images of young women and timed toilet breaks: a police tour of a newly busted cyberscam operation in Cambodia on Wednesday revealed how fraudsters ensnare foreign victims online.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
You pointed at the muddy earth surrounding a tree whose trunk had busted right through the sidewalk.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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