How do you use Broken in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like damaged or injured, plus the exact meaning.
Broken in a sentence
Related words
Broken meaning
past participle of break
Synonyms of Broken
Broken vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Broken
- The main meaning on this page is: past participle of break
- Useful related words include: unbroken, damaged, imperfect, noncontinuous.
- Possible Dutch translations are: gebroken, geknakt, defect.
- In the example corpus, broken often appears in combinations such as: was broken, and broken, broken into.
Example sentences (20)
Dalton suffered a broken right foot, a broken left femur and left hip, a broken pelvis, several broken ribs, two broken hands, and a traumatic brain injury.
The broken foot, broken home, broken car, broken vows, whatever it is, whether fixable or gone for good – how can anything be larger than life itself?
He has received extensive treatment for injuries including a broken back, eight broken ribs, a shattered shoulder blade, a broken arm, and a fractured jaw and sternum.
Olivia was also found to have suffered three fractured vertebrae, a broken pelvis, a broken eye socket and a broken nose in the fall.
The motorcyclist, in his 60s, suffered serious, life-threatening injuries, including broken vertebrae, broken ribs, a broken wrist, a punctured lung and other internal injuries.
It’s the first time the storage container has been broken into, but the construction structure itself has been broken into four times before.
Perry sustained various injuries, including a broken wrist and a broken ankle, and is currently in the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
The Engineer had a broken arm and the fireman suffered a broken leg.
The teenager was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital for treatment of nine broken vertebrae plus a ruptured spleen, a collapsed lung, a concussion, and a broken hand and dislocated finger.
The watch still being broken indicates how broken Joel himself is over Sarah's death over 20 years after it happened.
Ties were broken by Metascore and further ties were broken by votes.
Trenbolone enantate is therefore inactive from a purely biological point of view until enantate ester is broken down enzymatically and cannot be broken down.
We had handled it ourselves but it is broken and it's sad because of how broken it is.
You'd see a folding metal folding chair, the leg was broken, and someone gaffer's taped onto a wooden chair leg when he put a safety cone for the back of it because it was broken and rusted in the seat.
As a result of the road rage attack, Scott was left with three fractured bones in her neck, a broken femur, multiple broken ribs, a lacerated liver, and a fractured back, according to the GoFundMe page.
Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims confirmed that one officer suffered a broken nose, while another’s jaw was broken.
But it was healing broken minds rather than broken bones in which my father found his calling.
Conservative MP Richard Holden, the MP for Basildon and Billericay, described the Budget as containing "broken promise after broken promise".
Now, as you can see, this crisp has a very distinctive shape, once they've broken it, there's no way they're hiding the fact they're broken - even if they rush out and buy another pack of the crisps, they're not going to find a crisp like this.
She continued, “You hear us say that all the time: this broken system that has broke — been broken for the past couple of decades, this immigration system — and so, we — that — that could provide additional assistance.
Common combinations with broken
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- was broken 23×
- and broken 17×
- broken into 15×
- broken and 15×
- been broken 14×
- has broken 14×
- broken nose 13×
- the broken 12×
- broken down 12×
- had broken 10×