Sentence examples for broken meaning from inspiring English sources

Water pumps at the centre have broken, meaning there is no access to running water for showers.

One is that the sector's internal checks and balances are broken, meaning the system no longer self-corrects.

But the relative Gazprom-Russian stranglehold is broken, meaning that its ability to pressure these countries politically has been diminished.

The BBC's iPlayer is broken, meaning that nobody can access one of the most popular video services in the world.

A few more of you have noticed that our desktop scoreboard is broken, meaning you are going elsewhere for factual information about the match.

I can't speak yet to its effectiveness when compared with Rapportive, because I don't have meetings scheduled for the next hour, and the sample one-pagers on Charlie's website seem to be broken, meaning I can't run tests.

On the UK version there are no ad breaks, meaning that the show just seems to go relentlessly on and on.

It's worth pointing out that this email is time stamped a good half hour before our story broke, meaning he wrote it thinking it would all still stay private.

For one thing, you now have double the number of wheels that can break, meaning a bag with a busted wheel will be like a car with a flat tire.

What you're really doing is keeping the hair from breaking, meaning that you'll maximize the amount of hair that you have at any given time.

At other times, as in the title poem of the new book, Hass, composing poems even as time erases his and his friends' lives, wants "to behave like time," to break meaning rather than to make it: "To score, to scar, to smear, to streak, / To smudge, to blur, to gouge, to scrape".