Sentence examples for was broken of from inspiring English sources
Thirty years after that unforgettable season, and six years after Maris's death, the taint was finally removed from his record (which was broken of course by Mark McGwire in 1998).
In 1832, at age 14, Elizabeth was sent to live with the newly married Burwell son (and her half-brother) Robert, whose wife ordered a neighbor, William J. Bingham, to beat the young slave until she was broken of her "stubborn pride".
She says: Odin shot a spear, hurled it over the host; :that was still the first war in the world, :the defense wall was broken of the Æsir's stronghold; :the Vanir, indomitable, were trampling the plain.
He turned on CNN, just as news was breaking of the bombing of the Murrah building.
Records are made to be broken, of course.
But how can investors be broken of their habit?
The narrator speaks often of his spirit being broken, of illness, of exhaustion.
"When one was arrested he was broken out of jail".
Some of it is breaking of treaties.
Whose fault is it that Medicare is broken, out of money, that Social Security is broken, out of money?
"Windows were broken out of their police cars.
