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The sentence "The machine was broken" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the state of a machine. For example: "The machine was broken, so the production line had to be shut down."
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"We thought our machine was broken".
The doctor who first took it thought the machine was broken and did it again.
Radiation treatment was recommended, but the machine was broken, so she gave up and went without it.
Each time, she said, the driver told her the credit-card machine was broken and requested cash.
"One day a machine was broken, and the only person who knew how to fix it had not come in.
A woman who fled sexual abuse in Jamaica was deported back to the country because the Home Office's fax machine was broken, lawyers have claimed.
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One machine is broken.
YOUNG WOMAN: Today our machine is broken.
Or to the pit boss, or the machine being broken?
A handwritten sign taped to his photocopier warns potential users that the machine is broken.
"Our machine is broken and we can't afford to fix it," he said.
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