Sentence examples for broken houses from inspiring English sources

She peeked out long enough to see "dilapidated shanties, broken houses".

She found a lesson in the miles of splintered boardwalk and broken houses.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — Sitting in front of his home, Chang Woon-il looked almost out of place, a lonely human figure on a street where stray dogs wandered among the abandoned and broken houses.

The volunteers say it is slow going, wading through salt grass and brackish gullies, full of the detritus of ruined lives — broken houses, boats, cars, machinery, appliances, toilets, bicycles, toothbrushes, vases, tools.

UNICEF is also assessing the medium-term shelter needs of thousands of people who will have only broken houses once they decide to return.

She needed to figure things out on her own so she did, holing up in those broken houses in Melbourne and Berlin, and emerging with beautifully broken songs.

"Broken marriage, broken house," she said.

But defend that broken house all the same.

Responding to the report, Conservative housing minister, Brandon Lewis, said: "We inherited a broken housing market after Labour's housing crash".

"We inherited a broken housing market in which builders could not build, lenders would not lend and buyers could not buy.

Amid the riot of broken house frames and pieces of porcelain, the tires and sides of walls, can be spotted the occasional personal item.