Sentence examples for were broken open from inspiring English sources

The gates were broken open, the windows smashed, the furniture and the computers carted away.

When the tombs were broken open, there was no one to protest.

Those caps were broken open this year, a measure of the difficulty in meeting them.

There are numerous examples of difficult, deadlocked negotiations that were broken open by a joke or humorous incident.

The rest, the report concluded, "were broken open due to the combination of well-deployed undercover agents, information from citizen or undercover informants and tips from foreign intelligence agencies".

The most recent looting was of the Napoli in 2007 when the ship went aground near Branscombe; 40 containers were broken open and 50 BMW motorbikes, and Bibles in Xhosa, were stolen.

"Every other day we were breaking open the Champagne bottles because we thought we found it," Mr. Clifford said.

Her 2015 debut album on Planet Mu, Dark Energy, wasn't completely removed from her frenetic footwork roots, but its physics were weird, as though she were breaking open the very grid on which footwork was built.

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.

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.