broached

How To Use broached In A Sentence

• I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status.
• The former had at length succeeded to the extensive property of his long-lived grand-aunt, and to considerable wealth besides, which he had employed in redeeming his paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most advantageous mode of vesting the money in Law’s scheme, which was just then broached, and offered his services to travel express to The Bride of Lammermoor
• Some reports claim that the hatches to the cargo were broken open and the casks of alcohol broached.
• I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• * Note: A singular "allegoric" explanation of this strange fact has recently been broached: it is connected with the charge of idolatry and Eastern heretical opinions subsequently made against the Templars. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
• Among Robert Gordon's distinctive contributions in (Gordon 1987) was the development of an idea first broached by (Thalberg 1977) that most ascriptions of emotions with propositional objects are "factive" ” that is, that they presuppose the truth of their propositional objects. Emotion
• Dorgan (D-N. D.) broached the idea of tacking his drug reimportation amendment to the food bill. Home/News
• He broached the idea of seeking direct government aid to a neighbor.
• First, government is constantly making adjustments that harm some people but benefit society at large, yet no claim to compensation is recognized or even broached.