Example Sentences

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The woman pointed at a muddy, half-broken bucket, gesturing to a visitor to look inside.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2023

She included a poem she wrote immediately after losing her child, an unfiltered torrent of half-broken lines that seem to vibrate with anguish.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2022

Is it wrong that I don’t want my kids to grow up cramped in a small house playing with half-broken toys because of my husband’s past trauma?

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2020

At the bottom of the hill in Regent, a half-broken house hangs over the churned-up earth.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2017

He looks every inch a sellsword and not at all like the half-broken thing we took from Yezzan ’s cage, Tyrion reflected.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin