Sentence examples for broken vessel from inspiring English sources

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"broken vessel" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is mostly used metaphorically to refer to a person or thing that has been hurt or damaged, often emotionally. For example: "Although she had been through so much, her spirit remained strong - a testament to her strength as a broken vessel."

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broken vessel

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A person who is destroyed or forgotten, or who feels flawed or broken.

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The situation steadily worsened as the storm battered the broken vessel with 60-foot waves.

The broken vessel must be a sign, but of what?

It has been compared to a broken vessel — glued together but cracked.

How should one judge the healthiness of a writer like that, an empathist, a broken vessel?

Attention that which weaves together disparate points can close a wound, or make a broken vessel whole.

Following is the official Vatican text of Pope John Paul's speech today at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial: The words of the ancient Psalm rise from our hearts: "I have become like a broken vessel.

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Damaged blood cells begin to spill out of broken vessels and, aided by gravity, settle in the capillaries and small veins, discolouring the skin.

There is a rabbinic teaching, "If a person uses broken vessels, it is considered an embarrassment.

The rabbinic commentary on the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra Rabba 7 2) makes a similar consoling point that I hope gives you comfort in your self-doubt: "If a person uses broken vessels, it is considered an embarrassment.

The conditional approval could be altered if Shell can repair an ice breaking vessel before the short open water season ends in late September.

All his books have broken the vessel they were written within in some way".

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