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Broken in sentence

1371 examples of Broken in a sentence

Bones were broken; especially in old, fragile people, you couldn't use it.
And major depression is something that happens when that system gets broken.
CA: Ed, there was a story broken in the Washington Post, again from your data.
What does that say about the state of oversight in American intelligence when the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has no idea that the rules are being broken thousands of times every year?
I think your boss, General Keith Alexander, has said that that would be a terrible example for others; you can't negotiate with someone who's broken the law in that way.
At that time, I didn't view my body as broken.
Technology is broken.
A person can never be broken.
Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled.
Actually, I kind of felt bulletproof, because I knew that I had broken the spell and I had found my way back home to writing for the sheer devotion of it.
And I had someone write in, I've had people write in about, can you prove whether or not you can find love again after your heart's broken?
I was flying on a trip, and I was witness to an incident where a passenger attempted to board before their number was called, and I watched the gate agent treat this man like he had broken the law, like a criminal.
My years in the hacker world have made me realize both the problem and the beauty about hackers: They just can't see something broken in the world and leave it be.
You've just broken a law.
It's an important lesson for kids to understand, that some of these laws get broken by accident, and that laws have to be interpreted.
Because if it is a law, it can't be broken.
A six-month stalemate was broken by the 442nd in 32 minutes.
Have you ever broken something in real life, and then found yourself looking for an "undo" button in real life?
When Peseshet arrives, the laborer’s arm is clearly broken, and worse, the fracture is a sed, with multiple bone fragments.
That's a hugely important goal, and I'd be thrilled if any of my work contributed to it, but fixing things that are broken in the world is not the only thing that's worth doing.
And so I stood up in front of 200 very angry, very disappointed people on a summer night, and the air conditioner had broken and it was 100 degrees outside, and I started showing these pictures.
Christopher had broken this 12-week spell; he had regained some movement and feeling years after his accident.
So far, most city governments have been effective at using tech to turn citizens into human sensors who serve authorities with data on the city: potholes, fallen trees or broken lamps.
But inside the mound was indeed evidence for a city that had thrived during the Bronze Age, with charred stone, broken arrowheads, and damaged human skeletons suggesting a violent end.
Since we started in 2008, the taboo on drugs is broken.
And here are the results, and this is broken down into nearly 800 different municipalities.
For instance, we set the best of intentions to exercise after the holidays, but actually, the majority of Americans find that their New Year's resolutions are broken by Valentine's Day.
Impunity was broken.
One day I went to the office and found our metal signboard wrinkled and broken as if a lot of people had been hitting it with something heavy.
The only thing I want to leave you with is the moment in which those men, some of them just huge when standing next to me, or the young boys - so young, but with an enormous pride, held their papers and trembled like little kids and sweated, and read their poems with their voices completely broken.
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