Sentence examples for was broken open from inspiring English sources
Each gall was measured to provide for volume calculations and examined for the presence of natural openings or external damage before it was broken open.
A water main was broken open and people scrambled for handfuls of water.
The front door is cracked where it was broken open by a police battering ram.
During a night of heavy seas, the entrance door was broken open from within and torn from its iron bolts and hinges.
Once, at Unst, the northernmost of the Shetland Islands, a lighthouse door a hundred and ninety-five feet above the sea was broken open by the surf.
In a six-hour pre-dawn operation last November, the mausoleum was broken open and samples were taken from the corpse.
The limpkin has a more specialized diet, consisting chiefly of certain large snails, which are broken open at certain favourite feeding stations that contain telltale piles of broken shells.
In Karainagar, everything had been broken open.
The lockbox has been broken open.
The concrete floor is now being broken open by jackhammers.
Occasionally the bottom is broken open; that's an open pediment.
