Sentence examples for it so broke from inspiring English sources

I was in a relationship, but I went off to university and just got over it, so broke up with him by email at 3AM after a night out.

The Uffizi in Florence is so broke it cannot pay its electricity bill.European museums have managed pitifully badly when it comes to finding alternative sources of cash.

Kingfisher Airlines is so broke it cannot pay its gorgeous cabin crew, for instance, and Air India is also manifestly in deep distress.

When it was finished, the Freemans were so broke that it was years before they could afford to hire Schindler to furnish the house.

RIO DE JANEIRO — The state of Rio is so broke it is selling off the governor's summer residence and the small island it sits on.

By then, the technical deadline for ratifying it has already passed, and Congress is so broke that it can't afford to hire a courier to carry the ratification back to Europe, and so they have to borrow the money from France and hire a British ship to carry the ratification of our independence to Europe.

The central government is so broke it has less money than most American network crews here, so the government can't even pay salaries.

At a time when the suburbs have an increased need for programs for the poor, Ms. King said the state was so broke it could not afford to offer new services in places like DuPage County.

(The city utility is so broke, it issued new bonds in order to pay the fees to get out of the old bonds!) According to a recent Reuters article, since corporate bankruptcies have declined, investors specializing in "distressed" hedge funds have begun circling troubled municipalities, with no city "attracting more attention than Detroit".

Did you know that California is so broke it held a garage sale?

Chicago was so broke, it made the ill-advised deal to privatize all of the city's parking meters to some company for $1 billion cash upfront.