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Broken in sentence

1371 examples of Broken in a sentence

Living plants shed dead body parts: fallen leaves, broken branches, and even underground roots.
They have broken my heart.
Even if all of a person's cellular processes had already broken down, this could still conceivably be reversed by a swarm of nanobots, moving all the molecules back to their proper positions, and injecting all of the cells with ATP at the same time, presumably causing the body to simply pick up where it left off.
She moved from knowing in her head that smoking was bad for her to knowing it in her bones, and the spell of smoking was broken.
That energy is released during digestion, and stored in other molecules that can be broken down to provide energy when the body needs it.
It then needs to recognize English morphology, or how the language can be broken down into its smallest meaningful units, such as the word muffin and the suffix "s," used to indicate plural.
But here's the thing: the more successful I become, the more shows, the more episodes, the more barriers broken, the more work there is to do, the more balls in the air, the more eyes on me, the more history stares, the more expectations there are.
My hum was broken.
When exposed to enzymes in the saliva, carbohydrates get broken down into simpler sugars, which can become the fodder for those ravenous mouth bacteria.
The books have been dropped of in one long straight line, but they're all out of order, and the automatic sorting system is broken.
When you meet people who seem like an exception to the rule, oftentimes it's that the rule is broken, not that they're an exception to it.
As the emergency generators kick in, an alarm confirms your worst fears: all the sample vials have broken.
The system isn't broken because the rules are wrong.
I held on when I arrived at Yale at 18, with the faith that my journey from Oak Cliff, Texas was a chance to leave behind all the challenges I had known, the broken dreams and broken bodies I had seen.
If our communities are broken, don't let the lawyers that you elect fix them with outdated, inefficient, expensive methods.
NR: It's broken up into so many little tiny pieces, I'm trying to use sand and putty, and it's not looking good.
The stranglehold of the gun lobby is clearly being broken.
But none have broken out.
Here is one from a story about Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy: [A dock that had been broken in the middle and lost its other half sloped down toward the water, its support pipes and wires leaning forward like when you open a box of linguine and it slides out.]
The cryogen that used to refrigerate its sensors is long gone, so we joke that its air-conditioning is broken.
I'm in health care for over 20 years now, and I witness every day how broken and how obsolete our hospital system is.
And up there, a place for gargoyles and broken clock towers that have stayed still and dead for maybe like 100 years, up there is me.
Now, the American population can be broken up into three main categories: there's mostly wonderful people, haters and Florida.
That's a huge statement on how broken the Indian public education system is.
So we had the goal, and now we needed to figure out what are the issues, what is broken.
OK. (Laughter) There are studies done on the frequency with which individuals engage in the conjugal act, as broken down by male, female; introvert, extrovert.
The economy is completely broken, and people are still fighting.
And whether in the shape of informal concrete slums or broken social housing or trampled old towns or forests of skyscrapers, the contemporary urban archetypes that have emerged all across the Middle East have been one cause of the alienation and fragmentation of our communities.
The advertising business models that have sustained reporting are broken.
Any of one of these journalists, they could have broken the pact.
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