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How to use the word Broken in a Sentence? Page #28

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Docs essentially lifted and secured every rib with steel bands, anchored the broken clavicle with plates and rods, set aside repair of a broken shoulder for later (also later are more minor things like ACL/MCL knee injuries), still mechanically inflating one collapsed lung while other bruised lung, liver, etc., are watched; chest drain is working overtime to keep things clear.

Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I get the reports every day. Someone’s jumping a turnstile [ or ] someone had some other kind of infraction and … it turns out Broken Windows Policing have a weapon.

De Blasio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

So obviously they’re not doing ‘ broken windows ’ policing.

Scott Prendergast

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Records are meant to be broken, i am looking forward to when these records in space are surpassed.

Scott Kelly

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You’re not the only person whose heart was broken.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I think stop motion animation adds kind of a handmade, dream-like, sort of broken quality. We really wanted to focus on the hand-made aspect of it, that's why we kept the seams, and that's why we kept the chatter and the clothing, and the sort of like slightly unnatural way that the characters move. It makes them feel fragile.

Charlie Kaufman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can easily forget. After the quake in Aceh we wanted to do everything, but by 2015 we don't have money allocated (to fix the buoys), most of (the buoys) were broken by vandalism.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Most of (the buoys) were broken by vandalism.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The bravery of these Mayan women has allowed the silence and impunity surrounding sexual violence to be broken after more than 30 years.

Rigoberta Menchu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They all lost children, which is almost unimaginable, yet they have not been broken or embittered.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In terms of capital allocation and portfolio management, UTC has done a pretty good job of looking after shareholders and its assets. But you could argue that The Hartford , Connecticut-based company could be broken up.

Artisan Partners ' O'Keefe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When there is a bottleneck, the bottle could break, and where we had a controlled movement of individuals ... a broken bottle could result in an uncontrolled, illegal influx.

Migrant Minister Yannis Mouzalas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think the more the African-American community hears our message on a broken criminal justice system -- which has more people in jail today than any country on earth, largely African-American and Latino -- when they hear our message of an economy that represents all of us, not just the 1%. I think you're going to see us making progress there as well.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The GOP is broken [and] may not be salvageable.

Juleanna Glover

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Houses have been blown away, roof tops have gone, power lines have been broken and debris scattered around in towns and cities.

The Fiji Times newspaper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What I saw then was an army that was broken from Vietnam, full of low morale and discipline problems.

Mike Coffman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When I first got there, it was horrible -- you'd have people walking into the station with their intestines hanging out, arms broken backward, black eyes, and they didn't want a police report, they just wanted to hide from their attackers.

Senior Officer Deon Joseph

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When we talk about transforming America, it means ending the disgrace of this country having more people in jail than any other country in the world, disproportionately African-American, and Latino, not only are we going to fight to end institutional racism, and a broken criminal justice system, we are going to provide jobs and education for our young people, not jails and incarceration.

Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

While we didn't see a lot of trade breaks on August 24th, we did see a number of trades that would have been qualified to be broken had they been submitted in a timely fashion.

Stacey Cunningham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We still haven't broken the correlation between oil and equities and we are yet to find a bottom in oil prices.

Jeff Carbone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our hearts are broken, there were no clinical signs of health issues with Chai.

Tara Henson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Andy doesn't break and it's a double whammy because he gets broken straight away in the next game.

Robbie Koenig

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is actually a really important demarcation point for any immigrant who finds themselves here, if I go down this hallway I'll be going to the Island Hospital, built to restore the health of people suffering minor injuries, broken bones ... even babies were born in that building -- 350 babies.

John McInnes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Protecting this information should be a core competency of OPM, today's announcement seems aimed only at solving a perception problem rather than tackling the reforms needed to fix a broken security clearance process.

Jason Chaffetz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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