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Broken in sentence

1371 examples of Broken in a sentence

They have broken out of the existing frame of victim and perpetrator.
That is what happens if we all work together to fix what's broken.
You’ve broken into NIM’s secret lab, and now you’re floating in a raft on top of 25 stories of electrified water.
paper politicians with their paper-thin policies, broken promises without appropriate apologies.
Often, the digital thread is broken right at prototype, because you can't go all the way to manufacturing because most parts don't have the properties to be a final part.
And imagine if that had played him out with him standing there going, "No seriously, Heinrich, I think this is broken," we wouldn't enjoy watching that.
In the developing world, basic law enforcement systems are so broken that recently the U.N. issued a report that found that "most poor people live outside the protection of the law."
He's broken in before, busted down my door, assaulted me.
Recently, the Gates Foundation funded a project in the second largest city of the Philippines, where local advocates and local law enforcement were able to transform corrupt police and broken courts so drastically, that in just four short years, they were able to measurably reduce the commercial sexual violence against poor kids by 79 percent.
I think I may have broken my left arm.
And this suggests it doesn't matter who tries this toy, the toy is broken.
This is the decision to change a system that is broken, and that we have unwittingly but willingly allowed ourselves to profit from and benefit from for too long.
When one is gone, their strength is broken."
So it turned out, I'd broken off a tip of the urchin spine in the joint itself, and that's why it wasn't getting better.
Just because a P.C. is not running Windows doesn't mean that it's broken.
And never in my life had I ever translated that definition of finite that I'd felt on board to anything outside of sailing until I stepped off the boat at the finish line having broken that record.
Our foundation is broken.
I don't want the poetry of the calligraphy to be broken, as it's art and you can appreciate it without knowing the meaning, as you can enjoy any music from other countries.
We also have to acknowledge that we have put faith in a system that sometimes is broken, hoping that it would give us solutions for better.
But what you had was a partnership and a dialogue, and the dialogue has broken down.
It's broken down because in Washington, less government is considered more.
Everywhere I go, I see people who are broke but not broken.
What if we recognized that what's working is the people and what's broken is our approach?
The reason we envisioned using the CRISPR system for genome engineering is because cells have the ability to detect broken DNA and repair it.
ASL is broken down into many different grammatical parameters.
I was having dinner with my colleague, Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner, and I somewhat embarrassedly told him about having broken my window, and, you know, forgotten my passport, and Danny shared with me that he'd been practicing something called prospective hindsight.
They've called because their pets are unwell, their DVD is broken, they've forgotten how to use their mobile phone, or maybe they are coming out of hospital and they want someone to be there.
The audience wants, no, needs, to see the tension of the dramatic irony broken either by the scary person jumping out of the shadows or by someone finally revealing someone's true identity and clearing up the confusion.
The first troops moved in single-file along routes used by local ethnic groups, and broken tree branches at dusty crossroads were often all that indicated the direction.
Centuries of scientific thought and experimentation have established that the real elements, things like hydrogen, carbon, and iron, can be broken down into atoms.
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