The phrase "a broken doll" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a doll that is damaged or not functioning properly, often symbolizing something that is fragile or in need of repair.
Example: "She kept the broken doll on her shelf as a reminder of her childhood and the innocence that had been lost."
Alternatives: "a damaged doll" or "a shattered doll".
Though dragged off the field like a broken doll, Phoenix later miraculously reappears unharmed.
She sat on stage with one leg out – like a broken doll – diminished and defeated.
(His parody: "As I stand here pissed and weeping in this burning hell, the body of a child lies like a broken doll in the street").
The writer visited there with a broken doll and saw numerous dolls, spare parts of dolls, stuffed animals, and doll wigs from France.
Gaitskill is a writer who situates herself in a version of reality, and then studs it with the portents and symbols of the unconscious; the tiny box of found objects, including a broken doll that looks like Ginger, that Velvet keeps close; the news reports from the Iraq war that float from the car radio into Ginger's agitated brain.
There are dozens of other films and fragments listed in the Academy's "New Zealand Project" catalogue that look likely to provide good viewing, once restored, such as "Smithy," a 1924 comedy starring Stan Laurel; a fragment of "A Trip Through China," a 1917 documentary; "A Broken Doll," a 1921 Western directed by Allan Dwan and Maryry of the Movies," a 1923 comedy about an aspiring star.
If you find anything creepy lying around the house like an old broken doll or a test tube set it up at your doorstep.
Among them are "Werewolf Shadow" (1971); "Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman" (1972); "Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll," a k a "House of Psychotic Women" (1973); "The Black Harvest of Countess Dracula" (1973); "Horror Rises From the Tomb" (1973); "Hunchback of the Morgue" (1973); "The Orgy of the Dead" (1973); "A Dragonfly for Each Corpse" (1974); and "Cannibal Killers — Human Beast" (1985).
A review of "Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll" on the Web site blogcritics.org last year called it "an entertaining and somewhat bloody whodunit wherein an ex-con gets wrapped up with a trio of weird sisters in a remote French village," adding, "Sex, murder, sex, sex, the actual slaughter of a pig, more sex and more murder are just some of the highlights in this enjoyable thriller".
We happily suspend all need for it in Until Dawn, we revel in the bombastic despots of Far Cry, and the most interesting character in Fallout 4 is a 1930s detective robot that looks like a broken porcelain doll.
The look that is aimed for is that of a broken Victorian doll.
