How to use "broken" in a sentence

Already, I have broken my rule to be sensible.

I've done it! I've broken both bones in my arm.

Most of the doors and windows were broken, and the floor was dirty

'The Broken Eggs group has broken up,' he told me

She had a comb, a white handkerchief, and a broken piece of looking-glass

The window nearest to the door was broken in two places

Barnett and Mary used to put a hand through the broken window and pull back the bolt to open the door.

The bars of his window had been broken during the night

Our only chair is broken

A broken window - in this weather! My wife ill in bed and our younger daughter injured.'

Leblanc grew pale, and gripped the back of the broken chair with his huge hands

But he would also have broken his promise to his father

One afternoon he was sitting in a field, looking down at a small river, when his dreams of 'Ursula' were suddenly broken by the sound of a familiar voice

More soldiers moved into position at the end of the street, behind the cannon, and started to build a low wall with pieces of broken stone

At the foot of the smaller barricade, half-hidden by broken stones and pieces of wood, there was a hole in the road covered with an iron grille

He walked in total darkness, the silence broken occasionally by the thunder of gun carriages and horses racing along the streets of Paris far above his head.

'She'll be heart-broken if she hears the truth about me

As he tries to say something, he sees the broken champagne bottle at his feet

Has he broken a window? Or entered the property by force?"

"My mom says the packing equipment is broken," said Sala

They say he's broken hearted.'

She says that Robert must have taken it or broken it

'I never thought that Mrs de Winter had broken the ornament,' said Mrs Danvers

If only I hadn't broken that cupid

I have broken one of their wedding presents.

The peace of Manderley could not be broken

There was no sign that anyone had broken into the house, no obvious evidence of forced entry, and Michael was the only other person with a key

Now that she had spent more than a year grieving for her broken marriage and for her lost son, now that Magyck! was almost behind her, she would have time to be a woman again

The airplane models were no longer in the display case; they were strewn across the floor, and a few were broken

Only a skilled burglar could have broken in without leaving a trace

Besides, Angela couldn't have broken into the house

During the minute that he was away from her, she was afraid the spell was broken

He said, "I don't want to see your heart broken."

She had the irrational fear that, if she said his name loudly, the spell would be broken and he would vanish forever.

That was just about the time that another researcher walked into his lab, saw the cultures of Wuhan-400 broken open on the floor, and set off the alarm

When they were reluctant, he made up a story about a friend being stranded in the mountains with a broken leg

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

But the truth is that I am fighting down the feeling that a stranger has broken into the house and is in my bedroom

I had broken through her defences..

Third way - is there a third way? My idea was to see if any of the bushes were broken near the vicarage garden wall.'

We turned and walked this way, but after a short distance, there were no more broken bushes

Again, we came to a place where the bushes looked broken

On the floor, there were suitcases, broken furniture, and some pictures.

The day after the murder, I had found broken bushes beside the path

I had thought that Lawrence had broken them

This time I noticed some more small branches were broken

There were trees above, but again there were some broken bushes

They laughed again at my broken sentences.

Then one of our chimneys cracked and broken bricks fell down onto the flower-bed by my study window.

The horse did not move (his neck was broken, poor animal!) and by the lightning flashes I saw the turned-over cart and one wheel still spinning slowly

It seemed that his neck had been broken

It was a long time before he was able to answer my questions, and the answers he gave were puzzled and came in broken sentences.

He hid behind a broken wall as one of the Martian tripods returned

The fires had died down now, but the ruins of broken and burnt-out houses and blackened trees were clear in the cold light of the dawn

Its head flashed and burst into a dozen broken pieces of red flesh and shining metal.

A violent explosion shook the air, and a column of water, steam, mud and broken metal shot far up into the sky

'London in danger! Kingston and Richmond defenses broken! Terrible killing in the Thames Valley!'

It seemed that one of its three legs had been broken

He put a hole in its front tire while he was pulling it through the broken window, and cut his wrist, but he managed to get away on it

When, an hour later, a Martian walked down the river, there was nothing but broken pieces of boats in the water.

The Martian was thrown back by the violence of the explosion, and in another moment the burning wreckage, still moving forwards, had broken the Martian like something made of wood

I remember a pile of three broken bicycles, flattened by the wheels of passing carts

'The floor is covered with broken plates

I stepped carefully through the broken plates that covered the floor.

There was a little two-wheeled cart with a broken wheel

There was a hat lying in the mud, and a lot of broken glass with blood on it.

A jeweller's window had been broken open in one place, but the thief had clearly been chased away, because a number of gold chains and a watch were lying on the pavement

A broken bottle of wine had formed a pool on the pavement

The sound of tools would soon be heard in all the burnt and broken houses

I was curious and I stopped to find the twisted and broken dog-cart with the whitened bones of the horse

The door had been broken, and it was opening slowly as I approached.

Then we looked for the eggs that weren't broken

We found half a pork pie, a tin of fish and a few broken eggs

His heart is broken, and so is Laura's! I did this, and I did it for Sir Percival Glyde!