Sentence examples for like broke from inspiring English sources

In common parlance, bankruptcy is often used more casually, to mean something like broke or insolvent.

To assess how often horses get injured, The Times bought data for about 150,000 races from 2009 through 2011, then searched for terms indicating that a horse encountered a physical problem, like "broke down," "lame" or "vanned off".

America wants the CEO's begging for cash to act like broke people.

She, like, broke his heart.

"On my eighteen-month cancer anniversary," he said, "I went out to lunch with a girl that I liked at the ad agency I worked at and I disclosed to her that it was my eighteen-month birthday from brain cancer and she, like, broke down hysterically crying and embarrassed everyone in the restaurant".

So when you say things like, "I'm broke," this new video from CollegeHumor urges you to take a step back and really think about what you're saying.

They are romanticizing the idea of just getting by in your twenties and thirties, and instead of fighting to become more financially stable and secure, they're accepting as a fact that you're not supposed to stop living like a broke college student until you're like, I dunno, 40 or something, bro.

"We were like the broke Huxtables," he joked.

More like, We Broke This Guy (me) With This God Damn Boring Song, am I right?

Last fall, new shows like "Two Broke Girls" on CBS, "New Girl" on Fox and "Once Upon a Time" on ABC were all instant hits, but nothing at that level has emerged on any of those networks.

A few years ago on a visit to the country, he was surprised to see that "many locals drove sports cars, wore fancy watches, ate at top-notch restaurants and generally made me feel like a broke hick".