Broken in sentence

1371 examples of Broken in a sentence

It's a room broken in two halves.

A little easier for your friend on the phone, worried that she's broken.

I don't like being patient when systems are broken, and health care is broken.

So we need to acknowledge that despite the dubious statistics, despite the fact that 84 percent of people in Britain feel politics is broken, despite the fact that when I was in Iraq, we did an opinion poll in 2003 and asked people what political systems they preferred, and the answer came back that seven percent wanted the United States, five percent wanted France, three percent wanted Britain, and nearly 40 percent wanted Dubai, which is, after all, not a democratic state at all but a relatively prosperous minor monarchy, democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

This bowl is more beautiful now, having been broken, than it was when it was first made, and we can look at those cracks, because they tell the story that we all live, of the cycle of creation and destruction, of control and letting go, of picking up the pieces and making something new.

I'd broken my neck and my back in six places.

Why would I want to go back to a body that was so broken?

That body is broken.

They picked as much broken bone as they could that had lodged in my spinal cord.

I'm not saying they're broken.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken.

It's not broken.

So a little girl who you see just now, she raised her hand, and she says to me in broken Tamil and English, she said, "Well, apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else." (Laughter) (Applause) So I tested them.

I gave myself a hall pass to get through each broken promise.

I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all.

So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing.

Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize; it does.

You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, "They were wrong."

Maybe you used to bring bruises and broken teeth to show-and-tell, but never told, because how can you hold your ground if everyone around you wants to bury you beneath it?

It was this youth who on May 16, 1990, had broken two necks including mine, and bruised one brain and taken one life.

People don't know that they have lived through worse, that problems of the heart hit with a force greater than a runaway truck, that problems of the mind are greater still, more injurious, than a hundred broken necks.

Jim Ewing fell to earth and was badly broken, but his eyes turned skyward, where he always longed to return.

She remembered, for example, when her mother had broken a leg and went into the hospital, and she had a lot of x-rays, and two of them were leg x-rays, which made sense, but six of them were chest x-rays, which didn't.

And these molecules high up in the atmosphere of Titan get broken down, and their products join together to make haze particles.

So with this tool, this boundary has been broken.

And the reason is that the refrigeration somehow gets broken; what's called the "cold chain" gets broken.

Stereotypes have been broken.

Why is it that so many deciduous trees are able to sprout from whatever point the trunk is broken?

Whatever life throws at us, whether it's cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or even broken bones, we want to try and get better.

That's the part that's broken.

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