BROKEN in a Sentence

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The telegraph wires were still, no trains came in on the one remaining railroad from the south and the mail service was broken.

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 Meanings and Examples of BROKEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
broken
 a.  violently separated into small pieces;damaged
 v.  (past participle) cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I hope Zeena ain't broken anything she sets store by," she called after him as he turned the greys toward home.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  She stood silent a moment, drooping before him like a broken branch.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  The passion of rebellion had broken out in him again.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  He's been broken hearted because he thinks I'm in love with Brent or Stuart or Cade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  He told Ellen privately that it was a broken heart that made Scarlett so irritable and listless by turns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  But even with this loss on the top of the others, the South's spirit was not broken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  Now and again, the quiet was broken sharply by the crack-cracking of musket fire in the last line of defenses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  The telegraph wires were still, no trains came in on the one remaining railroad from the south and the mail service was broken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  He was only a little old man and broken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  Hoping to find jewelry buried with the dead, the Yankee soldiers had broken open vaults, dug up graves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt that she owed Him nothing at all now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
16  Water spurted from the broken pipe.
17  One lining broken, the whole chain is broken.
18  He repaired the fence he had broken and made his peace with the neighbor on whose property it stood.
19  He sings with the strained discomfort of someone whose voice hasn't quite broken.
20  The burglar had broken in through a window.
21  A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.
22  On both slopes of the roof there are broken tiles.
23  My camera strap has broken.
24  She was the child of a broken marriage.
25  The rim of the cup was chipped and broken.
26  I cut myself on a piece of broken glass.
27  The broken bones of a child unite easily.
28  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.
29  Bring the broken edges of the plate together exactly where they were and then glue them carefully.
30  His face has now broken out in pimples.