Sentence examples for broke rather than from inspiring English sources

That fear was overblown in 1968: Britain was broke, rather than determined to shun the world.

And, had he been told, would he have responded more quickly when the news broke, rather than waiting three days to express his disapproval?

It is the system he broke rather than the machine he built that makes his premiership so interesting.As for the others...Bagehot apologises to the chancellor of the exchequer.

"There is even some dispute, because people think he actually broke rather than tied the fourth.

Tyler would pretend he had forgotten — because he preferred us to think that he was absent-minded rather than broke.

For the third year in a row, most of the sponsors of the Academy Awards broadcast on ABC played it safe rather than broke new ground.

For the first time I could have sex while thinking about sex rather than how broke I was or how quickly my career was imploding.

The editor of the The Realist, Paul Krassner, later put Colbert's performance in historical context, saying that it stands out among contemporary US satire as the only example of the spirit of the satire by Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor, which took risks and broke barriers to free speech, "rather than just proudly exercising it as comedians do now".

To ride out the tough times, independent financial advisers recommend drip-feeding money into the markets each month or quarter, rather than going for broke and ploughing in a large lump sum on one specific day.

The 40-year-old broke with tradition and took a secular oath rather than the Greek Orthodox religious ceremony with which prime ministers are usually sworn in.

He says now that his later comment that the system was "broke, not broken" was in relation to finance, rather than to the whole system.