be broken
Frequency: 8.552.1 per million words
describes a state of being damaged or not working
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Examples (10)
- The toy truck is broken and needs to be fixed.
- I'm sorry, the window was broken by the baseball.
- She can't go out tonight because her heart is broken.
- My phone has been broken for a week, so I can't make any calls.
- If you drop that beautiful vase, it will be broken forever.
- His arm was broken in two places after the skiing accident.
- You must understand that a promise is broken the moment it's not kept.
- Could you please check why the printer is broken again?
- After the scandal, the trust between them was completely broken.
- The main water pipe is broken, and the whole street is flooded.