Sentence examples for said broke from inspiring English sources

He was, he said, "broke, taking advantage of all the happy-hour specials I could find in Washington".

This offer bent – many said broke – the rules curbing the "sale" of planning consents and resulted in the monolith that towers alone over the district's Victorian red-brick to this day.

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As an example of breaking boundaries, Dr. Young pointed to Ms. Lin, who he said "broke some of the rules on the way to her spectacular Vietnam Veterans Memorial," and to Mr. Libeskind, the architect of the site design, who "had to break all kinds of rules to make his design".

He struck her instead, which she said "broke my skull".

Observing the Chesapeakes many flags, a sailor had questioned Broke: "Mayn't we have three ensigns, sir, like she has?" "No," said Broke, "we've always been an unassuming ship".

At issue are claims totalling £90,718 between 2005 and 2009 for a property in Wimbledon where her parents also lived — an arrangement that some say broke parliamentary rules.

The luxury crystal and jewellery house Swarovski was among two dozen European companies that recently visited Burma on a controversial business trip that activists say broke the spirit, if not the letter, of recently renewed EU sanctions.

Despite what the Wall Street Journal says, Broke USA is an even-handed look at the poverty industry.

I should not have said "dead broke".

Tracey McDermott, the FCA's director of enforcement and financial crime, said the broking firm saw compliance as a hindrance.