How To Use Broached In A Sentence
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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
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It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status.
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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
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Some reports claim that the hatches to the cargo were broken open and the casks of alcohol broached.
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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
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* 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
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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
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Dorgan (D-N. D.) broached the idea of tacking his drug reimportation amendment to the food bill.
Home/News
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He broached the idea of seeking direct government aid to a neighbor.
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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.
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As one big sea washed us too far around back into the wind, with that weight of sail above, we broached.
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There is one issue which remains, broached in their different ways by Chambers, Bhatt and Osner.
Worth Your Time « Planning the Day
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Colonel Everson broached the difficult subject with the wizard.
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I broached this question one day to warder Smith, who informed me that the bathing appliances of the establishment were scanty, and that the prisoners were only "tubbed" once a fortnight.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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These issues are not being broached in open political appeals to the American people, who have never been consulted in any serious way and are largely unaware of the active consideration of a second or expanded war.
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A seawall at Herrington was broached by the surge, destroying large sections of docks.
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It will only upset the applecart and confuse the issue if that topic is broached prematurely.
PROSPECT HILL
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When, two months later, Father van Exem broached the subject, the Archbishop was actually quite upset about the idea.
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To Mr W. was broached the idea: "I believe that if one set up a few obstacles on the floor, volumes of the British Encyclopedia and so forth, to make a Country, and moved these soldiers and guns about, one could have rather a good game, a kind of kriegspiel." ...
Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.
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When I first broached the topic of defining indie, I discussed five areas of contestation (independent label/distribution, independent ethos, genre, aesthetic judgment, and not being mainstream).
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It has broached its plans to snap up smaller competitors with existing shareholders.
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Some reports claim that the hatches to the cargo were broken open and the casks of alcohol broached.
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In the king's name they broached a pipe of the best wine.
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Tolkachev appeared highly interested in this subject, once it had been broached.
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A recent flurry of postings from the tagerati on the state of tagging follows up on the idea broached by Phillip Kelleher, and then addressed here in previous posts; to wit, tagging is in a bit of a lull, if not an authentic spate of the doldrums.
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Even when I was by his bedside, doing my duty as one of those chosen by birth to stand near during his dying hours, Queen Emma did not cease from her persistency, but again broached the subject of succession, and spoke to the king of the great importance to his people of naming an heir to the throne.
Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
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The New Zealand Merino Company represents 70 per cent of fine wool growers, and last month broached the idea of selling its wool in Melbourne.
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After the depth charge exploded the submarine broached, then quickly sank.
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Before about 1830, temperance sermons, tracts and addresses routinely broached female intemperance.
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With the directors of the hospital surrounding him, plus the mayor of Pattaya, Pairat Suthithamrongsawat, the ceremonial bottle of bubbly was broached on the dais and the award acknowledged in fine style.
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He talked freely about quite a number of subjects, but had not once broached the question of being sent ashore.
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He broached the subject of a loan with his bank manager.
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A broached brambleberry pie, a glass of wine and frothed tumbler of ale have been left in a disarray of pewter dishes and scattered filberts: untidy by Dutch standards, apart from the sharply ironed tablecloth.
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After listening to me for several years on how hydrogen, as an alternative energy, can bring peace and everlasting prosperity to the society of nations, Marvin broached the idea of this talk and your brave president, showing the considerable courage of his military background, extended the invitation.
HydrogenWill the First Element be the Final Fuel?
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Third, Lincoln had never given up the idea, which he had first broached in 1855, of voluntary and compensated emancipation.
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No barrel was broached at this year's Oktoberfest, since host Ina couldn't find the hammer.
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The incident, which could have easily ended in tragedy, occurred last spring during a regional tune-up race when the Beneteau, Epic, had an accidental gybe and broached in a 34-knot gust.
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Well, said Arthur, I will accomplish my message for all your fearful words; and went forth by the crest of that hill, and saw where he sat at supper gnawing on a limb of a man, baking his broad limbs by the fire, and breechless, and three fair damosels turning three broaches whereon were broached twelve young children late born, like young birds.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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Pattaya Mail's Peter Malhotra broached the ceremonial keg while muttering the immortal words ‘Ozapft is’ (the keg is tapped).
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Requiring a more convenient mode of transportation, the idea of a railway was broached in 1897, but it wasn't until 1924 that the funicular railway to the top of Flagstaff Hill was built.
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Even in the semi-formal surroundings of the Team GB press marquee there is a waspish chemistry between the pair, and an air of almost marital delicacy when the subject is broached of Grainger's recent outings with alternative partners during Watkins' recent injury break.
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test
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There is still a sort of moral consensus that defines certain subjects as "delicate", gets kind of antsy when such topics are broached, but the consensus seems to have shifted from a conservative default to a liberal one.
MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
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I happen to agree with Rumsfeld, but I'm disappointed in the howitzer's defenders, and I'm disturbed because so few analysts have broached what this fight is really all about.
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As dawn broached the horizon, it cast a thin, pale light into her room and over her face.
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He was enjoying a plate of baklava when he broached the subject he was here to discuss... Benjamin Adnam.
NIMITZ CLASS
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I resented the notion broached upon her nomination - that one woman is as good as another, that Hillary voters will fall in lockstep behind her because they wouldn't care about or even notice the difference; that women would be happy to sacrifice their ideals at the altar of simple gender ascendancy.
RVABlogs
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It was the morning of the Duchess of Devonshire's rout that Carstares again broached the subject.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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I had first met Marcel Ospel two months earlier, when he broached the idea of closer cooperation between UBS and PaineWebber.
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He determined that when the boy broached the subject he would give him such a "jawing" (to use his own vernacular) "as would put an end to that nonsense.
What Can She Do?
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It will only upset the applecart and confuse the issue if that topic is broached prematurely.
PROSPECT HILL
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A jazz equivalent of a National Theatre company or ENO has never been seriously broached in England, though a National Jazz Centre was almost built in Covent Garden in the early 80s, before overoptimism, underfunding and Thatcherism sank it.
London jazz festival: the grand nationals
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‘I still don't understand it,’ Andy finally broached.
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Finally, she broached the subject that had been playing on her mind for days.
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Steve has broached a subject close to my heart — dipodic meter — and I thought it might deserve a little space of its own here on Harriet.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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About 7 o'clock heavy seas swept over her and she broached, then sank by the stern.
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The question was, indeed, broached by the greatest thinkers among the great Greeks; howeer, their answer was always with reference to the presencing of the present Anwesen des Anwesenden, and the ambiguity contained in this "twofold," the tragic flaw contained in this failure to make what Heidegger calls the "ontological difference" was to haunt western thought concerning the tiny word "is" from Parmenides' famous maxim to the "is" of Hegel's speculative propositions.
Enowning
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Had the riverbanks been broached then the damage caused would have been catastrophic, both in human terms and in its effect on the business and commercial life of the city.
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He has also broached the topic of revisiting taxes on casino operators.
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Prospects perked up when I broached the first of my rapidly warming cans and heard loud singing from what looked like a pub but which turned out to be Sunday service at the Salvation Army.
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The therapist should explain fully why certain areas of questioning are being broached so that parents feel part of the assessment procedure.
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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 Paris for the purpose.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Finally, she broached the subject that had been playing on her mind for days.
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But having broached the thorny issue of using government entities to boost housing, the Fed didn't touch on questions surrounding a needed long-term revamp of housing finance.
Fed Up With the Depressed State of Housing
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It had been Adam, too, who had broached the subject of a new computer programming system for the business.
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When an effort to update the system was first broached, business groups supported it - until, they say, local governments used it as a pretext to raise levies.
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But some of the medical issues broached here suggest that the paintings had consequences for their maker's health, too.
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His paper ‘Gifts to the Heroes in Geometric and Archaic Greece’ usefully broached the topic of the actual artefacts offered in hero-cult.
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The issue was not broached in the most articulate or tactful manner, but it did generate quite a bit of discussion on our opinion pages.
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It was a habit of Mr. Wilson's to meditate before taking action, to listen to advice without comment, frequently without indicating whether or not the idea broached by others had already occurred to him.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
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In another press conference held Sunday, McCain broached the topic of Wright unprompted for the first time, despite previous suggestions that the Wright issue would be an out-of-bounds topic in the presidential race.
McCain: Obama and Wright do not share views
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Hesitated before the bathroom mirror and then, feeling slightly ridiculous, broached a bottle of cologne-for-men which Susan had given for the previous Christmas.
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Even the notion of a bankruptcy of Greece was broached, which is nonsense for countries: they restructure their debt but never go bankrupt.
Georges Ugeux: Why it Is Not Smart to Short the Euro
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Somehow the topic of dermatology was broached.
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‘I would like to talk to you again sometimes,’ she broached hesitantly.
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Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Only St-Joseph and that paler shadow Crozes-Hermitage can sensibly be broached within their first five years.
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T.e philosopher P.T. Geach first broached the subject of relative identity and introduced the phrase ˜relative identity™.
Relative Identity
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Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Also the possibilities of realist strategies as radical interventions should be broached.
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Arthur, I will accomplish my message for all your fearful words; and went forth by the crest of that hill, and saw where he sat at supper gnawing on a limb of a man, baking his broad limbs by the fire, and breechless, and three fair damosels turning three broaches whereon were broached twelve young children late born, like young birds.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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He was medevacked to a hospital in Greenland, where, Hooper recalled for National Geographic, he broached the idea of aborting the trip.
CNN.com
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Through error or confusion perhaps, but never was the idea broached of sending criminals to the United States, because of a fundamental reason.
CASTRO DISCUSSES IMMIGRATION AGREEMENT WITH U.S.
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As soon as the gale moderated Mr. Pike had the cask brought aft and broached, and now the steward and Wada have it all in bottles and spare demijohns.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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Fellow students wanting to honour Venesha's memory broached the subject of taking on a project in her name.
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Eventually I broached the subject of her early life.
