Sentence examples for broke including from inspiring English sources

Several props broke, including an important piece of jewelry and a telephone.

Several top executives have left MAN since news of the scandal broke, including Hakan Samuelsson, the former chief executive, and Karlheinz Hornung, the former chief financial officer, both of whom stepped down in November.

Once word of the scandal at Penn State broke, including the arrest of two university officials on charges of perjury and of failing to report to the authorities what they knew of the accusations, my colleagues at the New York Times's Learning Network blog, Katherine Schulten and Holly Epstein Ojalvo, saw a teaching moment to engage the high school students in their readership.

The documents, filed in court as part of lawsuit against the archdiocese and posted online by The Los Angeles Times on Monday, offer the clearest glimpse yet of how the archdiocese dealt with abusive priests in the decades before the scandal broke, including Cardinal Mahony's personal involvement in covering up their crimes.

REM has supported New Orleans musicians since the levees broke, including releasing an Entertainment Weekly video at the Katrina anniversary, donating a live South Central Rain track from Dublin to ReDefine 8/29, signing the lyrics to Everybody Hurts for auction, and Mike playing at a New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund Dr. John benefit for Wardell Quezergue.

Insiders, the ones who, in part, are responsible for the mess, are about to pick up a massive pay day: a 14% fee for putting back together what they broke including a guaranteed £9m fee for just taking the meeting about what to do about the bank's collapse that they helped ensure by participating in a massive ponzi-scheme mortgage loan fraud.

Promises had been routinely broken, including one to let him go home because of family problems.

By the end of World War II, he says, "everything was broken," including Say's scattered family.

Various parts of the service seem to be down, and most of its primary features are broken  — including logging in and loading and sending snaps.

"Several club records have been broken, including longest scoring run in a league campaign.

Several bones in his face were legitimately broken, including his jaw and nose.