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US
/ˈbɹoʊk/
]
[ UK /bɹˈəʊk/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈəʊk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking funds
`skint' is a British slang term
How To Use broke In A Sentence
- But Sexton found Nicks for an easy 31-yard score on fourth down with 4: 11 left to seal it, and Nicks set the receiving record with a 22-yard catch a little later from T.J. Yates, making his first appearance in relief from a broken ankle suffered in September against Virginia Tech. Newspaper Home Delivery - Subscribe Today USATODAY.com
- The coulpe or peccavi, is made for a very small matter — a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and the coulpe is made. Les Miserables
- Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
- In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
- The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.
- Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- The plotters were arrested in September 2006, just a few months after the country broke away from Serbia.
- The Press of Atlantic City interviewed Kuras, who spoke in confused, broken English.
- Neither watch works,they're both broken.
- Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.