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.
I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?
A spokesman said: ‘Following a further complaint, visits to the tea room this year established the conditions of the licence had again been broken.’
A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
Here, my voice broke as I let my emotions through for the first time in a year.
They are unencumbered trust funds pursuant to the Load Broker Regulations of the TTA.
The lack of a back-and-forth "us-verus-Nasdaq" makes it hard to imagine what the exchanges, and the fees, will look like, said Neil Catania , co-founder of agency-only brokerage firm MND Partners, located on the NYSE floor. Stock Traders Fear Fee Hit
The straw that broke the camel's back was "jete" - which I said was a ballet term, from the French. Archive 2009-01-01
The shower is broken - you'll have to have a bath.
The horse broke a leg in the fall and had to be put down.
Unfortunately, in many cases, the first real symptom is a broken bone.
A broken heart takes a long time to heal.
Garrido's round was achieved without the use of his driver, which he broke at the second hole on Friday.
My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
the flute broke into a light lilting air
But the monster got me when I fell and the 'squeaker' was broken. The Beast of Space
The scientist broke fresh ground in his recent book about physics.
They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for. The Fixed Period
At home in Harrogate, Leon's mother watched as news of the disaster broke, knowing of her son's plan to dive on Boxing Day.
The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
But there was understandable outrage when sundry fund managers and regional stockbrokers were confronted with the hat. Times, Sunday Times
A guttural sound broke from his chest when he felt her sheathe tugging him deeper, its slick clench undeniable. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Mortgage brokers report that borrowers increasingly want the security of knowing how much their mortgage repayments will cost for the next decade. Times, Sunday Times
One woman's broken thigh bone had been badly set, leaving her left leg at least three inches shorter than her right.
After winning the TAFC title moments earlier, Austin's dragster, which he purchased from the estate of the late Gary Ormsby, broke at the start of the burnout in the Top Fuel final.
Several events of fulminating epidemic disease broke out since 1999, which often caused 100% mortality of abalone Haliotis drversicotor aquatilis farmed in Fujian and Guangdong coasts.
Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
Immediately after she offered the suggestion, a storm broke about her ears.
Trouble broke out in the match when one of the players called a member of the other team a cheat.
The bridge broke down in last earthquake.
Ten of us broke the ice across the harbour with our feet and glided our boats out into the liquid waters beyond.
When he broke his leg he had to walk on crutches.
Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
I was broken-hearted and on my own. The Sun
This continued until war broke out and when war broke out, General Hertzog, again with his strong feeling of South Africanism, said, "While we do not wish to be disassociated from the British Empire, while we are willing to remain with the British Empire on the same footing as heretofore, we do not see why we should declare war now, why we should not maintain neutrality and the status quo, even though Great Britain go into war. Racial Relations in the Union of South Africa
With a twist of his body, Vince turned so that his left leg was now resting on top of the broken wall of stone.
Friends and colleagues expressed astonishment last night as the news broke.
The sector dam broke and its water drowned the entire valley.
I was unfortunate enough to have an accident while on holiday in Minorca, where I spent eight days in hospital after an operation for a broken hip.
A fight broke out behind me as we lined up to receive our food rations.
The road was uneven, full of random stones and broken asphalt, thrusting themselves in all directions.
He probably would have still been teaching at Premiere Guild right now if he hadn't fell down a flight of stairs and broken his hip and bruised his tail bone.
When a person has any kind of injury - a broken shin, for example, or a sunburn - the pain system becomes hypersensitized, firing up in response to normally painless sensations induced by, for instance, walking or a gentle massage. Undefined
The view of the unbroken forest canopy stretching away to the horizon defies description; it is a vision of a world untroubled by time, a revelation of the hugeness and wholeness of nature.
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After about two hours of tweets mentioning the lay-off, Philip Brasher broke the silence, also with a tweet: "Saddest part: DM Register opened bureau nearly 80 yrs ago to cover ag policy when Wallace became ag secy. Paula Crossfield: Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher Is Bad for Food
But still bankers in brokerage firms with giant bonus options think they can prop it back up. Times, Sunday Times
Some brokers will even hire a "stager" who can tidy up the home, move furniture around and even re-hang pictures to create a more inviting living space. How To Sell Your Home In 2007
She broke loose from his embrace and crossed to the window.
Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
The impression of warmth and comfort and beauty predominated, though he was unable to analyze it; while the simplicity delighted him -- expensive simplicity, he decided, and most of it leftovers from the time her father went broke and died. Chapter XVIII
Without warning my foothold broke and I slid downward ripping a gash in the plastic that held the containers of water together.
I have this satisfactory stereotype in my mind's eye, all broken veins and Mittel Europa. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
He resigned from his post as Bishop when the scandal broke.
They had tiffed occasionally, and broken off the friendship, and once I believe returned letters. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
The car had carried him 500 miles before it broke down.
He acted as a pro-American power broker and an alternative voice to the German-French axis within the European Union.
He put a sheet of plastic over the broken window.
Fistfights broke out in the hall and, for 20 minutes, police were unable to restore order.
While streaming one video, the picture broke down after about a minute, and the voice track continued over an indecipherable kaleidoscope of colours.
At the time Longstreet broke through his lines to attack his left wing, he was with the right-wing troops.
Fraction by fraction it rose, then a dirt-streaked brown forehead appeared over the broken bricks.
Foam attack: Thieves broke into vending machines at Teesdale's new sports centre at Barnard Castle to steal ￡100 cash.
The Sea is heaven's own blue like a diamond more lovely in a king's diadem than in the mines of the Indes but as it gushes up through the broken ice-like salt, it is black, full of asphalte scum - and in the hand slimy, and smarting as a sting.
A federal investigator was on campus within 48 hours after news broke about the scandal.
News of her death broke in the morning
Her wings are cocked in a funny angle as if they were broken recently.
One newspaper headlined their lead story with the recession claims of Davy Stockbrokers.
Having your house broken into is terrible. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
He saw privates, corporals, sergeants, and all the other ranks waiting for treatment from anything such as a broken limb, to a gunshot wound to a vital area of the body.
The Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
She was taken to hospital in an ambulance suffering a broken neck but later died.
The police department has been fielding eighty hazmat calls a day since this story broke.
Not without a painful emotion of impending danger, as I watched the stellular reflections dancing in the rushing river, did I wander on in the wake of a group of pack-ponies, and took my turn in being assisted over the broken chasms by the muleteers. Across China on Foot
In stark contrast to its nature during the foundational period in the 1970s and early 1980s, the Commission in large measure both sets the Community agenda and acts as a power broker in the legislative process.
Eluvium is the geological term for detritus from weathering rock (soil, dust and rock particles are broken down and redeposited by the wind).
His wife hails from Hamburg, Germany, and he had a spell working as a commodity broker for a bank.
* (* Teacher.) "The sahibs love their soldiers - and so the gora-cavalry broke Lal's string for him tonight! Fiancée
Unable to contain their joy, boys of Punjab broke into a song prompting their friends to do a jig.
The contract can only be broken by mutual consent.
The ledge was brittle, and would be easily broken.
Or if I want to see a police officer in a time frame where the person concerned might be caught, I report a couple having a domestic, who called me a derogatory name ref my Race, Religion, or sexual preference (underline the relevant option) and just out of interest they broke the wing mirror on my car. Norfolk Constabulary. Pants On Fire. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
It was a broken economy, rampant inflation, ineffective industry, overdominant trade unions and high taxes. The Sun
The opening vignette, ‘Lullaby for a Broken Dog’ is simple piano tinklings and a man's spoken words over the hiss and pop of a needle on an old record.
No. (2) The term spice means any aromatic vegetable substance in the whole, broken, or ground form, except for those substances which have been traditionally regarded as foods, such as onions, garlic and celery; whose significant function in food is seasoning rather than nutritional; that is true to name; and from which no portion of any volatile oil or other flavoring principle has been removed. Home Ec 101
Such survivals in the unbroken tradition of the cottage garden are now rare examples of such excellence and are very scarce indeed.
Part of the plane's wing had broken away.
But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Over the top rhetoric makes sense for the illiterati that the GOP courts to win their votes, but feeling the need to use it for the party power brokers is a disturbing new concept. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter. From the archives: Skating through life
About fifteen inmates broke through onto the roof.
She had a string of lovers before her marriage finally broke up.
The robbery suspect broke away from the lockup.
Any broken/latin stuff? looopz: What time are you on, might well make it down to this …. provided I can persuade someone else cassien: u.k. funky is house music for ol junglist like myself I'd like to break it here in the states but ... Grievous Angel
I'm virtually broke
Friends are tonight trying to comfort the heartbroken teenager.
But sharper than all these impressions rang the words of the worldly-wise Higbee: _ "She's hunting night and day for a rich husband; she tries for them as fast as they come; she'd rather marry a sub-treasury -- she'd marry me in a minute -- she'd marry_ YOU; _but if you were broke she'd have about as much use for you .... The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
When chopped, blended or simply chewed, plant compounds in watercress known as glucosinolates are broken down into phenylethyl isothiocyanate. Times, Sunday Times
Fire-engines turned out as soon as the fire broke out.
When he jumped over eight feet ten inches he broke the old record 7 feet 20 inches.
An uneasy truce has broken out in the coffee shop cybersquatting war.
The broker advised me on how to invest my money.
My car nosed under the guardrail and broke in half.
Her voice broke and she buried her face in her hands, the memories that seemed to have been lost for some time finally made themselves known in her mind.
In December, experts warned that many retirees who do look to take their business elsewhere are being ripped off by unscrupulous brokers. Times, Sunday Times
Ocalan has said rebels who broke away from his group may have had a hand in the killing.
Three riders broke clear on the fifth lap of the second event.
Monday, August 3 Yesterday was grey and humid with the heat finally broken by an afternoon thundershower. 52449_CLARA
Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date.
One is a broken awl, probably made from the neural spine of a bison vertebra.
By the way, if you're wondering about the British-ism in the first sentence, "skint" is slang for "broke," as in: got no money. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
To some judges, it isn't fair that the donor should always get the ring back, especially if the donee stood ready to go ahead with the marriage and the donor broke it off.
One of these went past me as I stood by the roadside, rising very gradually into the air and repeating all the way, _Chip, chip, chip, chip_, till at last he broke into the warble, which was a full half longer than usual. Birds in the Bush
In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.
In his million-acred temple, he stood -- cold, white and useless -- leaning upon his broken staff; while timorous leadership gaped at his still majesty -- Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
El Barzon (the yoke) takes it's name from the revolutionary saying, "the yoke is broken, but the ox goes on". The middle class revolt
The strict regime of the marriage vows broke my marriage and my husband became a person who seemed to change overnight.
Tank battalions, which supported infantry divisions, were at times broken up and spread over a whole division.
So that now hee hath left brokery, and is become a draper. Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850
His wife was bed-ridden with a broken leg that occurred while roller-skating. JOHN P DIETZ aka JOHN PETER DIAZ
Everyone ends up with knocked-out teeth, gashed lips, and broken bones. I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant
The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged the bank with covering up for outrageous bonuses given out at Merrill Lynch as the bank acquired the failed stockbrokerage, and now it was letting the bank off the hook with a chicken-feed fine. Robert Scheer: Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag
He landed in some bushes that broke his fall.
It's happening everywhere, coincidently, at a time when our ruling lords and masters have borrowed themselves broke. Times, Sunday Times
At Hemp Knoll the bone toggle had been broken and subsequently decorated, suggesting a long history of use before being sewn onto the clothing or shroud of the deceased.
He fractured his neck, and broke an arm and collarbone.
The fine weather/The heatwave broke at last.
When dawn broke, he rose stiffly, and stretched his aching limbs.
It broke under the weight as it was being hauled into position.
I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?
Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring. Chapter VIII
The march was broken up by police in riot gear.
The cool-headed 37-year-old took hold of one of the men, who had a handgun, but he broke free and pointed the gun at her, saying ‘Back off or you'll get one’.
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.(If it is not broken, do not fix it.).
The _sauba_ ants had cut nearly all the strings of Filippe's hammock; while he was resting peacefully on it the remainder of the strings broke, and he had a bad fall. Across Unknown South America
She rushed to a nearby pub to get help when the row broke out.
Two retiring Republican senators warned their fellow lawmakers Tuesday that they need to fix the Social Security system before it goes broke.
One case, number 11, describes the management of a broken nose, and the treatment, involving rolls of lint within the nostrils and external bandaging, can hardly be bettered even by modern doctors.
That meant withholding some of the farmers' irrigation water and sending it downriver - at least until the drought broke.
When our washing machine broke, our neighbours let us use theirs.
The junior deckhand on duty had fallen asleep, chronically fatigued after his eight hours' sleep in the previous 24 hours were broken into three periods.
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. Rodney Dangerfield
Our hire car broke down after only an hour.
Heartbroken friends left flowers near the murder scene and paid tribute on social media websites. The Sun
Rosser had a run from the back but the move broke down following a misplaced pass.
Leaning back into the car at one point to right the passenger seat, I got comprehensively chinned by the headrest and would probably have gone down if the dashboard had not broken my fall.
The heartbroken emperor resolved to immortalize her memory by creating the finest monument ever seen, the Taj Mahal.
The prisoner broke away from his guards.
Signaling my server for more brandy, I broke the cake in two, and delicately bit off a morsel.
We replaced it with the gooseneck from the gaff of the storm trysail, and the second gooseneck broke short off inside fifteen minutes of use, and, mind you, it had been taken from the gaff of the storm trysail, upon which we would have depended in time of storm. Chapter 2
The girls were blindfolded and turned around three times; then they had to hit the shoe until it broke and the goodies spilled out.
Latex balloons, and toys or games that contain a latex balloon, must carry a warning that children younger than 8 can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons and that adult supervision is required Not just the newest toys hold risks for kids
It would seem as though the historical monopoly on information previously enjoyed by real estate brokerages is starting to disappear, and the profession will involve less horse trading, and there will be a fewer number of more highly qualified and scrupulous agents adding value as advocates to real estate deals, paid not out of the proceeds – which I consider a real conflict of interest – but for their time. Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine
Thieves broke into the gallery and made off with paintings valued at over $2 million.
They charged Brown for that broken window.
This exposed strand then searches for a copy of itself (located on its sister chromosome), and "photocopies" past the broken region, repairing the DNA and zipping itself back up. Newswise: Latest News
But when the copier broke down, she called the copier company and discovered that not only did she not have a maintenance contract, but she owed STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
I even broke out the sail for a few minutes until I got bored and switched back to paddling.
Insurance brokerages typically sell for 1 to 1.5 times annual revenues.
The Grane was a 1122 ton Norwegian collier, torpedoed by UB80 on 9 March 1918 and more broken up.
The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010). Emily Bennington: 'Entitled' to What, Being Unemployed?
It was a dramatic transformation, from society hostess to Democratic Party power broker.
But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot. Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price
The tradable permit approach has launched a new industry that brokers deals between firms.
His broken leg was encased in plaster.
This surprise declaration was so stunning that local New York television stations broke into their regular broadcasts of soaps and talk shows.
Stop the MI broker IBMESBBRK on the active node.
A scream broke the silence of the night.
My … brother had quite a hand in brokering the accords, she said nodding across the room to a skinny bloke in a well-fitted tuxedo who was making his way onto the verandah Rose had disappeared onto. The Boundaries of Consent (1/3)
What there is, is a difficult political issue now that we have discovered the VPOTUS and his associates broke this law—not for a kidnapped child, but to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq with confabulated links between Saddam and 9/11. The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:
I don't think it broke Steve's heart when Cherise left him, but it certainly bruised his ego.
Trouble broke out in the match when one of the players called a member of the other team a cheat.
A shrewmouse broke cover in front of him, followed by its mate. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
The New Yorker wondered why they had not gone for broke, naming these two universitium and offium so as to reserve berkelium and californium for the next two elements.
But this idea does point in the right general direction: toward a kind of inner conflict, toward what I have called a kind of "brokenness" in the human psyche, and in particular toward a failure of integration within the person of the creature's feelings and needs and impulses on the one hand, and the moral injunctions internalized from the socializing culture on the other. A Piece (from Huffington Post) on the Right's Manifest Hypocrisy Problem
In a second the whole sword was broken in pieces and Kashiro's attack continued.
Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul,[Sentence dictionary] the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain.
A violent accession of noise proclaimed that the mob had broken through and was dragging a scab from a wagon. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
I unbolted the door and walked to the broken kitchen door.
Us married just five months, and her the nicest girl living, and you keeping us flat broke all the time, you damned old thief, so you can put money away for your saphead of a son and your wishywashy fool of a daughter! Babbit
On the same day, the municipal council broke down in half an hour in similar circumstances.
She started clawing at the mattress until she broke it open and scattered the fluffy insides all over the cell.
The psst-hey-buddy guy may not be the image the new "ticket broker" industry wishes to be associated with—and, goodness knows, one needs to make sure the curbside tickets are legit—but maybe these days dealing with the low-tech scalper is one's best hope of not getting scalped. Don't Blame a Scalper When You Think You've Been Fleeced
They say the system is broken and it is creating hardship for day laborers and their families.
The silence was broken by the gavel pounding on the judge's perch.
Outside armies have toppled Afghanistan's government and installed a new one, but it controls only its broken-down capital and very little of the vast country beyond.
Once more the evening sky is dark and the streets are empty, the silence broken only by the familiar rumbling bass from high performance stereos passing in the night.
But there was the usual reverent silence, broken by the occasional embarrassed cough or ripple of restrained applause.
The UN threatened to invoke economic sanctions if the talks were broken off.
She was reading for a degree of classical literature in Oxford when the war broke out.

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