Sentence examples for is broke for from inspiring English sources

Margaret Longville, Temple's cousin, wrote to her mother, "my cousin Carew Saunders is broke for forty thousand pounds and is not able to pay five shillings in the pound and James Temple is in too much".

I've been broke for months, but it's all completely worth it.

Our city gives benefits but has been broke for six years, and this affects everyone".

Even though I was broke for a very long time — I made my last undergrad student-loan payment when I was around forty — I am glad that nobody tried to convince me that college wasn't worth it.

Plenty of people want the tax increase, particularly if extra revenue is funneled to the transportation trust fund, which has essentially been broke for years and just last month incurred $2 billion in new debt.

Afterward a high police official remarked, "From what I hear, the Purple Gang has been broke for some time and they're likely to do anything to get money".

They'd start coming into Friday's at the end of the month, when they were broke, for a hamburger and a beer and we'd say, "Aw, don't worry about it; you'll pay it back next month".

Jimmy Kennedy of Yonkers, a defensive tackle for Penn State, could have figured in it.. "I've been broke for 22 years now," he said, when he decided to stay at Penn State for his final year of college eligibility rather than go professional.

God would never want you to say, 'I made millions of dollars, and now I'm just gonna be broke for Jesus.' All the Bible characters were paid beyond belief....The Bible doesn't say money is the root of all evil.

The short version: the business model wasn't working, and they've been broke for a while.

He was broke for a while.