Sentence examples for a broken pair from inspiring English sources

It provides money for one-time or emergency expenses, such as replacing a broken pair of eyeglasses.

But horror turned to disgust when passers-by began taking "selfies" at the scene, with a pool of blood and Mr Perry's meagre possessions – including a broken pair of spectacles – in the background.

Gascoigne had arrived at the game without his boots, and had to borrow a broken pair from Sheringham in the first half that were a size and a half too big for him.

But just possibly I will be 30 feet below ground in a makeshift hovel, frantically attempting to teach myself the skills to survive in this terrible new world, building a fire using only rudimentary tools: a few sticks of kindling, a broken pair of spectacles, and a pocket copy of the Constitution.

Mr. Kesminas then placed the cube in a transparent plastic box, which he adorned with objects referring to Mr. Hughes's life, including a fishing reel, a beer can, a broken pair of glasses, a torn copy of Mr. Hughes's best-selling book "The Fatal Shore" and a mock-up of a Time magazine cover depicting Mr. Hughes.

Then there's the Toronto Sun, who are probably supporting Hudak, but are more noticeably embroiled in an unpleasant controversy after they published a political cartoon showing a bloodied and broken pair of Wynne's trademark glasses, laying beside a few broken teeth.

The positivity is encoded by a *-semigroup of broken pair partitions whose representation space with respect to t is V.

The first nouns from the first two triplets were combined for an encoding word pair (e.g. violin – lemon); the second nouns from the first two triplets were combined for an intact retrieval pair (e.g. cello – mandarin); and the third noun of the first triplet plus the third noun of the third triplet was selected to form a broken retrieval pair (e.g. harp – truck) (Fig. 2).

Both the intact pair and the broken pair condition allowed for semantic word priming.

Retrieval words were balanced between the intact and broken pair condition.

Words presented in the intact pair condition and the broken pair condition were semantic neighbours of encoding words.