Sentence examples for a broken pump from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a broken pump" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a pump that is not functioning properly.
Example: "The technician arrived to fix a broken pump that was causing water to leak in the basement."
Alternatives: "a malfunctioning pump" or "a faulty pump."

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Beginning the rounds of Nurpur Harouni on his itinerant mornings, summoned to a broken pump, Nawab and his bicycle bumped along, decorative plastic flowers swaying on wires sprouting from the frame.

IN MYANMAR, a column of cars at a petrol station usually means a fuel shortage or a broken pump.

But in November 2009, under the EU-UNICEF initiative, a broken pump less than 15 minutes' walk from her house was repaired.

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A spacewalk to replace a broken coolant pump on the International Space Station has been delayed another day to Saturday morning.

We headed over to Hlaing Thaya and before we even got to the monastery where we helped out — stopped in an elementary school that had around three hundred homeless people with a broken water pump.

The home does apparently lack a continuing source of fresh water, a result of a broken water pump, and until the impasse the family had been drawing water from small Beaver Lake nearby.

We headed over to Hlaing Thaya and before we even got to the monastery stopped in an elementary school that had around three hundred homeless people with a broken water pump.

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