Example Sentences

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I think already today the news has broke that there’s been a record number of people volunteering to take people into their homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2022

“That has broke our hearts,” Michael Boyle said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

The American has broke early to lead 2-0 against Kei Nishikroi.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2019

The delusive bubble has broke, and in breaking has beggared thousands, and left you an unprotected people; numerous without force, and full of resources but unable to command one of them.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester

Winter has broke, and we shall have steady weather.—Found your way, elder, didn't you?

From In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk by Butterworth, Hezekiah