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Broke in sentence

1276 examples of Broke in a sentence

I broke my cheekbone, I got five stitches on my right eye.
Mos Def: Brown skin I be, standing five-ten I be Rockin' it when I be, in your vicinity Whole-style synergy, recognize symmetry Go and try to injure me, broke 'em down chemically Ain't the number 10 MC, talk about how been I be Styled it like Kennedy, late like a 10 to three When I say when I be, girls say bend that key cut CL: So there's a lot of analogy between what takes place in freestyle rap and jazz.
The reason why you want to work hard and have a job and not be poor and broke is so you can have choices, economic choices.
Derartu Tulu was ready to hang it up and retire from the sport, but she decided she'd go for broke and try for one last big payday in the marquee event, the New York City Marathon.
We sent economists in the Soviet Union with privatization plans when it broke up, and what they really lacked was social trust.
I broke up the course in seven- to 10-mile segments in my mind just to reduce the enormity of the race.
And I was an archeologist, and then I broke things.
He was broke all of the time.
Then pretty soon, I was broke too.
We broke down all the individual notes in the singing as well as the phonemes in the singing.
The fall shattered his right arm, broke every rib that he had, punctured his lung, and he drifted in and out of consciousness as he drifted down the East River, under the Brooklyn Bridge and out into the pathway of the Staten Island Ferry, where passengers on the ferry heard his cries of pain, contacted the boat's captain who contacted the Coast Guard who fished him out of the East River and took him to Bellevue Hospital.
I bet Harry Beck wouldn't have known what a user interface was, but that's really what he designed and he really took that challenge and broke it down to three principles that I think can be applied in nearly any design problem.
But when he saw what really happened, he broke down crying.
And we eventually broke the code.
The B15 iceberg broke off the Ross Ice Shelf.
In English, it's fine to say, "He broke the vase."
In a language like Spanish, you might be more likely to say, "The vase broke," or, "The vase broke itself."
In English, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, "I broke my arm."
So we show the same accident to English speakers and Spanish speakers, English speakers will remember who did it, because English requires you to say, "He did it; he broke the vase."
So if you take English speakers and I just show you someone breaking a vase, and I say, "He broke the vase," as opposed to "The vase broke," even though you can witness it yourself, you can watch the video, you can watch the crime against the vase, you will punish someone more, you will blame someone more if I just said, "He broke it," as opposed to, "It broke."
It broke up through atmospheric pressure, it crumbled, and then the pieces fell apart and did some damage.
This is how he became known to the public, and this is what probably became the straw that broke the camel's back.
The invisibility alone almost completely broke my spirit.
This series of events broke my heart, but Jeremy and Kelly's faith and resolve in ChopArt is what keeps me grounded in this work.
Okay, that shelf broke.
Somebody broke in and they hacked it thoroughly.
So in order to fake the ability to sell uncopyable bits, the DMCA also made it legal to force you to use systems that broke the copying function of your devices.
But at the end of every line break, I broke the line, because he took a breath and he paused.
On the 17th day, they broke through to the refuge.
Most of our ideas were crazy, but a few were brilliant, and we broke through.
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