The phrase "a broken circle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is incomplete, disrupted, or not functioning as intended, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The project felt like a broken circle, with each team member pulling in different directions instead of working together."
Alternatives: "an incomplete circle" or "a fractured circle".
The sardana developed in the 19th century from the contrapás, a similar dance with a broken circle.
A few workers sidled closer, forming around him a broken circle of overcoats and hats — fur for the older men, knitted caps for the younger ones.
And when I take Deb's hand, though neither Mark or Shoshana is touching the other, somehow, we've formed a broken circle.
And when I take Deb's hand, though neither Mark nor Shoshana is touching the other, somehow we've formed a broken circle.
This one-act show promised structural elegance: a woman telling the story of a marriage from end to beginning; a man approaching it from the opposite direction, to form a broken circle.
Dressed in shades of brown, the extraordinary dancers of the Ronald K. Brown/ Evidence company stood with heads bowed in a broken circle on Saturday night at Duke's Page Auditorium.
It can also be seen in another cluster composed of Fur, Zur, IolR, PurR, RocR, and GlnR (a broken line circle in Fig. 5A).
We observe a small cluster composed of σD, CtsR and SinR (a broken line circle in Fig. 5A), which is consistent with the result in Fig. 4. Here, σD is the σ 28-form subunit of RNA polymerase, and many σD-dependent genes are known to be necessary for flagellar synthesis and motility functions [ 38].
We argued that after being told the meaning of the symbol, older adults were able to make use of a verbal retrieval cue incorporated in the symbol – the broken circle represents cell mutation, as well as the letter 'c' for 'cancer' (see Figure 1).
In that moment, as we were doing the "back-and-forth" dance, I realized that we had captured a magical moment and in some way, we had healed the broken circle of trust.
But this season the young Belgian focussed his energy on repairing the broken circle of our cosmic awareness with the help of nature, crystals, and Hermann Hesse.
