Example Sentences

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Fractured is, coincidentally, exactly how I feel today.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025

Fame knocked anyway, extracting its usual levy: Fractured relationships, frayed nerves and disillusionment.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

In her Art League show, “Our Fractured Life,” photorealist painter Sally Davies employs two distinct modes to visualize pandemic-period isolation.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

Fractured snippets of waltz are 20th century versions of otherworldly Beethoven.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2020

Fractured hip bones.—More commonly the obstruction comes from distortion and narrowing of the pelvis as the result of fractures.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.