Sentence for broken | Use broken in a sentence

Examples of broken sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use broken in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for broken.

• Many had broken open. (12)
• His heart seems broken. (10)
• I feel perfectly broken down. (9)
• The barrel-organ stopped; the spell had broken! (8)
• His voice was husky and broken. (1)
• The broken bead had cut her hand. (12)
• Both broken men, my friend Roberts! (8)
• Lord Ormont gave out a broken laugh. (10)
• I may be broken, but save her I will. (10)
• He was ruefully rubbing a broken head. (10)
• His voice sounded broken and disturbed. (8)
• It had broken into two, between her fingers. (8)
• If only it could be broken to him by degrees! (8)
• A habit of the heart is not easily broken off. (1)
• It was not that they were all broken or defaced. (9)
• She dropped her face in her hands, broken with grief. (10)
• All was over; the dream was past; the charm was broken. (9)
• I ought to know when my own heart is broken, I should hope. (9)
• Then Halliday brought out a flute, and the spell was broken. (8)
• His pledge of friendship to me to-day shall never be broken. (18)
• She liked his being broken up, but she did not like the rest. (9)
• Now that he had broken from his father, his heart spoke for her. (10)
• Within three minutes, the company counted a pair of broken heads. (10)
• The illness had broken him very much; he was seventy, but looked more. (8)
• He brandished his broken whip in the air, and flung it into the bushes. (9)
• The mere sight of the printed page, broken up in dialogue, was anguish. (9)
• Next came a sudden crash, as though a wooden door had been broken down. (12)
• Better to die than to live such false, broken lives, apart from each other. (8)
• So; therefore, the barrier between him and his thoughts of her was broken. (10)
• There comes a sudden swish and splash of water, and broken yells of dismay. (8)
• Surely something had moved, something heavy, with a sound of broken branches. (8)
• I was one of five to emerge unhurt; most of the others had their necks broken. (21)
• She beheld her sister indeed, but not the broken Dahlia from whom she had parted. (10)
• They scurried up before him with their broken feathers tipped and tinged with gold. (8)
• He was, in fact, a ragged screen, a broken vessel, that let light through its holes. (8)
• One leg, bent beneath, was broken above the knee and the bone driven into the earth. (1)
• And they again stood in silence broken only by the sound of the cat licking its paws. (8)
• And his lips babbled broken sounds that no one heard, for all around were babbling too. (8)
• He was not then engaged upon any considerable task, and he had aged and broken somewhat. (9)
• The line was broken, and ran in dots, with here and there a pillar standing on opal sky. (10)
• The purple cloud had broken; a blind fury of rain was deluging the fast-scattering crowd. (8)
• The ribbon with which he had bound the wrists was broken; the hands were tightly clenched. (1)
• Beyond wandered the hills, their bare pasturage broken here and there by blotches of woodland. (9)
• Mely is a pretty wild colt now, but you ought to have seen her before she was broken to harness. (9)
• Instinctively he took a crumpled sheet of paper from his pocket, and wrote down some broken words. (8)
• The broken engagement was a fable of disaster that only made their present fortune more prosperous. (9)
• She followed them, thinking curiously of the something broken that appeared to be in their throats. (10)
• So dead fell her broken hope that her face was repellent with the effort she made to support herself. (10)
• The waters are broken, and every nerve and sinew of the artist is strained to discover his own safety. (8)
• Their swoon was broken by the opening of the door, where Old Tom Cogglesby and Lady Jocelyn appeared. (10)
• At a corner, half a block ahead of them, the summer noon solitude of the place was broken by a bit of drama. (9)
• Thus a play of broken light will be thrown back from the surface to the eye, and the observer will be pleased. (17)
• I am sure that there is not a broken brick or a broken tile in the whole length or breadth of it. (9)
• Perhaps the very obvious necessity for its enforcement is at the same time the reason why it is so seldom broken. (21)
• He had meant to pass in silence, but between him and this old broken husbandman there was a bond forged by the ages. (8)
• The mists, which had hitherto beset me, were now broken into clouds, and fled swiftly and shone brightly in the sun. (2)
• With her hand on the door she looks back, again catches his eyes in an engagement instantly broken off, and goes out. (8)
• He had not yet broken the tender charm sufficiently to think that he must tell her the sacrifice she would have to make. (10)
• Now death has come to join its vague conjectures to the broken expectations of life, and that blithe spirit is elsewhere. (9)
• She clinched her argument by confessing that her own engagement had been broken off, and that it had simply renewed itself. (9)
• Shortly before his death, though broken in health, he created a stir in Vienna by his interpretations of his own nocturnes. (3)
• She believed that his arm was broken, and smarted with wrath at her mistress for so easily taking his word to the contrary. (10)
• He sat down by the window with his eyes care fully averted, and spoke in soft tones broken by something that sounded like emotion. (8)
• Companionship was broken before they parted in three bodies, commanded severally by Colonel Corte, Carlo Ammiani, and Barto Rizzo. (10)
• Upon one occasion, he asserted, Hebe was about to fall from a broken pedestal in the ring when the other elephants rushed to the rescue. (21)
• The dawn had broken, and, from the long narrow window above the door with spikes of iron across it, grey light was striking into the hall. (8)
• The good mother was dead, the meadowside home by the great river was broken up, and the brothers were parted between two of their kinsmen. (1)
• The cars were gone, the groups dispersed; alone, leaning on his stick, the old, dark-whiskered man stood like a jackdaw with a broken wing. (8)
• It was an extremely hot day and the streets were dusty, unshaded by trees, and often almost impassable by reason of deep gullies and broken culverts. (20)
• Thorpe talked to his horse, and she meditated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. (4)

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