ADJECTIVE
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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.