Sentence examples for met broke from inspiring English sources

So in 1995 my 50-year-old girlfriend, the one I'd never met, broke up with me.

"The Met broke through and did this and proved to me beyond a doubt that this was a really magnificent way to make opera available more broadly," he said.

But the Met broke off the deal in May 2014 following "internal reviews on how we wished to move this area of technology forward".

Vollmer came into this meet determined to channel her happy-go-lucky, age-group swimming self: the one who showed up for a card game with her friends and a swim meet broke out; who put more thought into which candy she bought at the poolside snack bar than how she swam her race.

The gold-seekers I met seemed broke, hungry and mostly bereft of the one thing they had come here for: gold.

I met an eclectic crew of broke artists, in-between-jobs actors, and unemployed PhD students, most of them much older than me.

He returned last year to track down the people he met then, only to find them broke, depressed and pessimistic.

"When I met my ex I was a broke student and he had a full-time job, so he used to pay for lots of things," she recalls.

Ms. Blair says Mr. Sheets was broke when she first met him and had taken up teaching real estate courses in Miami after losses on Florida property investments.

"They were two beaten, broke teenagers when I met them," Winter says.

The first time I met the man, I met him through cheesy, broke-backed, secondhand paperbacks of "Hombre" and "Valdez Is Coming," bought for 17 cents each (I still have them) at the same used bookstore in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where I discovered Raymond Chandler.