Sentence examples for very broke from inspiring English sources

"We were very flexible, and very broke," said Ron Matlin, the Golden Gate's longtime accountant.

As a very broke and self-supporting 20-year-old college senior, I donated my eggs in exchange for money.

"I bought my wedding ring here 20 years ago, when we were very broke". She displayed a platinum eternity band.

But that distinction has been lost as the Kennedy Schools project has become a symbol of excess by a very broken system in a very broke city.

Some of my friends who are very conservative, but are very broke, are making calls on behalf of Rush Holt and Win 2000".

"If John and I had been head-to-head between now and Sept. 12, I guarantee you one thing: We would have had a very tired, very broke Republican candidate on Sept. 13, no matter who it was," Mr. Weld said at a news conference yesterday.

Really broke.

Some of the big engineering companies caught up in the Petrobras inquiry "very probably" broke laws against price-fixing and bribery on contracts to build Olympic venues, said Igor Romario, a federal police chief and key figure in the investigation.

In the early 1990s, assailed by Farc on the one hand and Pablo Escobar-style narco-terrorism – whose money corrupted the judiciary, the police and the body politic – on the other, the country was close to being a failed state as the institutions buckled and very nearly broke.

Markets are confident until they aren't, and countries tend to go broke very slowly then all at once.

Couldn't you do what you truly care about and very well go broke, as the question above (recently sent from one of our readers) implies?