Sentence examples for is broke with from inspiring English sources

California is broke, with unsustainable deficits and pension programs, and tax increases won't help.

The USPS is broke with a capital B and there is no use in hoping it will be resurrected any time soon.

In 2011, after almost two decades as a television writer, Soloway was broke, with two kids, trying to recover from the recent writers' strike and the recession.

Amazing, lyrical bon mots come thick and fast: "Bitch I'm in the 313 / With a fucking meat cleaver, like who want beef?" and "I want you bitches so scared that you mental break / So you'll forever be broke with expensive taste".

California is broke, pays vendors with IOU's, which can now be invested in Madoff funds.

Her ex-husband, Ted, is broke and has replaced her with a "cute blonde with a whiff of a mean streak"; her son Wade is a self-described "big sleeper-arounder" whose pregnant wife is a former heroin addict turned born-again Christian; another son, Bryan, is suicidal, trailing around a pregnant young girlfriend who was never toilet trained.

My state is broke and they cost us with spending on schools, hospitals and other services".

But Bunnyman is broke, so Boxer surrounds him with lines that sever him from Floyd's field of vision.

What we need to be assessing are the implications of forcing still more conflict on a public that is broke, dispirited and fed up with eight years of continuous warfare that have not yielded a victory parade or a sense that the nation is reasonably secure.

Terry Maggie Lawsonn), a single mother, is broke and has to move in with her crabby, estranged father, who is also called Terry but goes by "the Cannon" and is played by James Caan.

"How can somebody who's never been broke say with any confidence what someone needs who's struggling?" Mr. Vaughn asks disgustedly.