Sentence examples for broken your bones from inspiring English sources

If the season were right I would have broken your bones across my knees.

Then you don't break your bones when you fall over".

"They tie you to it and then they break your bones".

But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements.

"That bit about how sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you?

"The old saying, 'Sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you' — well, that's a lie," Nolan said.

Weapons brandished by the warring families are sticks of the sort that can break your bones, with attachable spears to guarantee more than a mere fracture.

"As a child, I can remember sticks and stones can break your bones but words will never hurt you," the sheriff said.

It doesn't take long — the whole play lasts only 95 minutes — for the grown-ups to shoot down the old schoolyard adage that sticks and stones will break your bones but words can never harm you.

Hurry! — Dear Leader Kim Jong-un, already running late for the Dennis Rodman roast, must bolt, but leaves us to ponder his Aphorism No. 63542-J: Sticks and stones will break your bones, but refusing to name names only ends with discovery of one can of Kim's Powdered Chowder in Grandma's mailbox.

"Come do our sport and break your bones — that's not the ideal recruitment poster," says Petter Ellingsen, a Norwegian jouster who has competed in nine countries and been injured badly only twice — both times when competing in what he calls "the American style".