Sentence examples for were broken of from inspiring English sources

I understand that we'd like to imagine fine athletes exhibiting fine behavior off the field of competition; it's a fantasy I thought we were broken of in 1970, when Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" came out.

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.

He turned on CNN, just as news was breaking of the bombing of the Murrah building.

They were broken because of the cracking of PZT at the stress concentrations area.

"When one was arrested he was broken out of jail".

A path has been broken for all of us.

"Doors were broken down, all of the windows were out".

"No laws were broken," said John Gellhausen, of National City.

A few of them were broken in pieces using tweezers.