Sentence examples for rather broken from inspiring English sources

They carry on a rather broken conversation, at the end of which Bigger cries out: "I didn't want to kill! . . .

It launched the second merchant age which persists today, albeit in a rather broken state.Mr Priestland regards the banking and sovereign-debt crisis of the past five years as the entirely "predictable" consequence of allowing merchant values to dictate the ethos of Western policymakers.

Given the rather broken state of software patents, it's not impossible to imagine that there's at least one other person or company out there that can claim to have invented it, with patent in hand.

Given the presence of a wealth of Google technicians, most of these interactions ran pretty smoothly, but one question, from Kevin Zelko of Seattle supporters group Gorilla FC, got rather broken up as it was relayed.

Toilets: Those in the main Institute space are large and in fairly good condition, but the smaller Library space boasts a rather broken-down latrine.

His sister Grete was too young to work, his mother too poorly with asthma, his father rather a broken man.

A lack of diversity in my own life that is, by no means, the fault of my progressive parents, but rather a broken and still segregated school system.

I find the state of being in Palestine very similar to experimental sound production, as the latter is not independent, but rather unstable, broken, volatile, disturbing, and quite cacophonous, not unlike the sounds of war".

The phrase the American dream was first invented, in other words, to describe a failure, not a promise: or rather, a broken promise, a dream that was continually faltering beneath the rampant monopoly capitalism that set each struggling against all; and it is no coincidence that it was first popularised during the early years of the great depression.

Cajoling Lu to kill Dong as a matter of personal vengeance, Diao sings, "I would rather be a broken piece of jade than an intact clay tile".

Peter E. Fleming Jr., the lawyer for John Rigas, Adelphia's founder and former chief executive, pointed out that Adelphia, rather than a broken company, is about emerge from bankruptcy as a strong cable provider with tens of billions of dollars in assets.