Sentence examples for spine broken from inspiring English sources

I still have my Penguin edition, spine broken, and with loose yellowing pages.

Its spine broken, it is bandaged and tied together with a bow.

My dictionary was now a tattered, sorry mess, its spine broken, its coffee-stained leaves creased and torn.

The pathologist who examined his bruised body found eight fractured ribs, a spine broken with such force that it looked like a car crash injury, and a tooth that must have been swallowed after a violent blow to the face.

After an injury, a chain of responses takes place in the spine: broken blood vessels swell, killing off neurons that end up squeezed within the cage of the vertebrae.

Gian Spadone, 30, whose injuries included a broken spine, broken ribs, a smashed wrist and a collapsed lung: "This whole episode has been like a book and this is like the end of one chapter, helping us to move towards the end of the book.

Eventually the spine broke, the pages fell out and I had to move on.

It spread to her spine, breaking her bones and leaving her temporarily paralyzed.

We read and reread Judith Kerr's Goodbye Mog – a superlative picture book about a cat's death – until the spine broke.

Mr Causer was punched, kicked and finally battered around the head with a heavy history book so forcibly that the book's spine broke, the court heard.

A jump from 20 feet (6 meters) above water will cause you to hit the water at 25 mph (40 kph) and that can compress your spine, break your bones or cause concussion.