Broke in sentence

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We broke down the old institutions and brought liberty to the oppressed.

The effort to do that almost broke the organization.

Eventually, I broke down in front of friends, and everybody convinced me to take more medication.

When I was 10, I read James Baldwin's "Another Country," and that book broke me.

Weeks ago, you broke me as a woman once shattered me into a song beneath her weight, before you slouched into that grassy hush.

I watched in horror heartbreaking footage of the head nurse, Malak, in the aftermath of the bombing, grabbing premature babies out of their incubators, desperate to get them to safety, before she broke down in tears.

My Internet broke one day, as it occasionally does, and the cable guy came to fix it, and he started with the dusty clump of cables behind the couch, and he followed it to the front of my building and into the basement and out to the back yard, and there was this big jumble of cables against the wall.

So if Movember 2006 didn't happen, the four founders, well, we would've been broke, we would've been homeless, sitting on the street with mustaches.

I broke five ribs on my left side.

I broke my right arm.

I broke my collarbone.

I broke some bones in my feet.

And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo, where my friend Aida saw the tank coming 20 years ago, and in that road were more than 12,000 red chairs, empty, and every single one of them symbolized a person who had died during the siege, just in Sarajevo, not in all of Bosnia, and it stretched from one end of the city to a large part of it, and the saddest for me were the tiny little chairs for the children.

I was able to leave, because of one final, sadistic beating that broke through my denial.

So I broke the silence.

Almost two years have passed since the Libyan Revolution broke out, inspired by the waves of mass mobilization in both the Tunisian and the Egyptian revolutions.

CA: Bruno Bowden, who's here, did that, broke the world record.EM: Congratulations.

From the dust, we pulled out bacterial cells, broke them open, and compared their gene sequences.

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago.

And if they said yes, we gave them the one that they built and we broke.

I broke my elbow very seriously, had to have surgery, worried that they were going to actually lose the arm.

I didn't have an exact address, but I knew his name, Abed, I knew that he lived in a town of 15,000, Kfar Kara, and I knew that, 21 years before, just outside this holy city, he broke my neck.

But Abed did not slow, and on that xeroxed piece of paper, my neck again broke, and again, I was left without anger.

But what to get the man who broke your fucking neck?

But also, more recently, we started acquiring video games, and that's where all hell broke loose in a really interesting way.

He broke the good/bad news in my face.

The streets were packed with police cars and religious police cars, but some hundred brave Saudi women broke the ban and drove that day.

We broke the taboo.

But the Great Recession in 2007 and 2008, the great crash, broke this illusion.

This is a measure of global overvaluation of all markets, expressing what I call an illusion of a perpetual money machine that suddenly broke in 2007.

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