Sentence examples for when broke from inspiring English sources

And few heads of households, when broke, can resist the urge to use a credit card to buy food for the family or gas up the car to go to work.

Twelve years later, Johnson could hardly find words to express the exploitation he'd experienced in the ju-co leagues, or the dissonance he felt when, broke and facing eviction, he rode around Coney Island one day in Stephon Marbury's limousine.

Some are well worn, such as one tale of the group's early days when, broke on the road, the men stuffed their overcoats full of meat and cheese at a grocery story while one guy distracted the checkout girl by buying a loaf of bread.

Mr. Yeager started the space race when be broke the sound barrier on Oct. 14, 1947.

None of us wanted Owen to go and it was a shock when this broke.

Ries advocates for a fix it when its broke approach.

I followed them all through high school and was really upset when the broke up.

Let's not forget that the two most famous reporters of all time – Woodward and Bernstein – were junior reporters when the broke their most famous story: Watergate.

He remained at the team's spring training complex in Phoenix for extended spring training when camp broke and reportedly resisted a minor-league assignment.

"Every firm had its own rules about how to co-broke, what to co-broke and when to co-broke," said Frederick W. Peters, president of Ashforth Warburg Real Estate.

When the Levees Broke 27.