Sentence examples for a broken bit from inspiring English sources

But by Friday, July 26, drilling stopped for about 18 hours because of a broken bit.

It means any detachable part of a plant that can be used for reproduction — a spore, a seed, a broken bit of stem or root.

Glancing out from the kitchen, where she was fixing something that the old man could heat up for his supper later, Marina saw his white head and the boy's round fair head bent intently over something or other that Liam had dug up out of the earth — a snail shell or a broken bit of china.

It's a medical fact, like breaking an arm, only the broken bit is in the chemical circuitry of the brain.

I am here, at the scene of a breaking; broken bits, the metaphor of crushed paradise; forested history of burning; a trace element version of heritage.

It would be big enough, strangely shaped enough, and perhaps irregular, or non-regular, enough, for some engineer to have positioned it for maximal effect, or, sighing, for two astronauts to climb up on it to fix some broken bit (an adventure which could then later be made into a summer hit at the exoplanet's multiplex).

They put one broken bit on top of the other broken bit, jammed a lintel on top and hoped they'd stay together.

"I don't see how you manage to shave in that broken bit of mirror," says Violet, the formidable nan, to Harvey.

Joanna Carson broke a nail while eating dinner at Chasen's in the late 70's and had the entire wait staff search the area until the broken bit was retrieved.

Another broken bit was the rear armrest, which would no longer close thanks to cupholders stuck in the extended position.

Mr. Johnson, tall and fit in a mustard-colored velour hoodie, called it "a fairly anxious work, with a lot of broken bits of mirror".