broken home
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of broken home
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Wiggins - a gangly north Londoner, from a broken home, brought up in poverty - made it to the very top of a sport that requires clinical preparation and a calm head under pressure.
From BBC ● May 13, 2025
When you come from a broken home, what you want more than anything is to create a family unit, and create something that you didn’t have.
From Slate ● May 23, 2023
Once, two sisters approached her on the Venice boardwalk to tell her how they’d come from a broken home and Punky helped them get through it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2021
They wanted to know about the broken home and I had that.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2020
Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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