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broken in

ADJECTIVE
  1. tamed or trained to obey
    a horse broken to the saddle
    this old nag is well broken in

How To Use broken in In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • Having your house broken into is terrible. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
  • 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.
  • In a second the whole sword was broken in pieces and Kashiro's attack continued.
  • They are blessed with speed, agility and a very pleasing nature and broken in by the old and traditional way of the herdsmen, the gauchos.
  • But in his eyes Kieran saw dislike and disgust - at him as well as the others who had broken in.
  • The difficulties of our road now increased, "if _road_ that might be called, which road was none," but black loose ashes, and masses of scoria and lava heaped in ridges, or broken into hollows in a manner not to be described. The Diary of an Ennuyée
  • A Foreign Office minister said that the export of bio materials had not broken international rules.
  • A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
  • Thieves had broken into the car in broad daylight and stolen the stereo.
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