Sentence examples for be broke with from inspiring English sources

Amazing, lyrical bon mots come thick and fast: "Bitch I'm in the 313 / With a fucking meat cleaver, like who want beef?" and "I want you bitches so scared that you mental break / So you'll forever be broke with expensive taste".

In 2011, after almost two decades as a television writer, Soloway was broke, with two kids, trying to recover from the recent writers' strike and the recession.

California is broke, with unsustainable deficits and pension programs, and tax increases won't help.

The USPS is broke with a capital B and there is no use in hoping it will be resurrected any time soon.

Wouldn't you rather be broke?" Sitting with his son in a gazebo outside Town Hall, Ron Conway, a retiree, said he felt sorry for Mrs. Pirro, whom he called "a wonderful person".

"How can somebody who's never been broke say with any confidence what someone needs who's struggling?" Mr. Vaughn asks disgustedly.

He's not sure quite what happened, but by the late 1980s he was broke, unemployed and with a young family.

In "Mentor" he flashes back two decades to when he was broke and living with his wife in Key West, Fla.

"We've got a government we can't afford, and we're broke!" he declared with brio to a good turnout of 125 in Lakefront Park on a recent gorgeous afternoon.

Garett Croft Stenson was broke and living with his parents in Portland, Ore., after college when he crafted a few wallets out of duct tape — a hobby he had learned in his dorm room.

California is broke, pays vendors with IOU's, which can now be invested in Madoff funds.