Sentence examples for wind up broke from inspiring English sources

You may wind up broke, but you'll live.

He is convinced that the vast majority of people who win big-money lotteries, like the recent Powerball prize, wind up broke within five years.

If Mr. Ebbers is guilty, there is a certain justice in the fact that he did not sell more stock and will probably wind up broke.

Other addicts, like Alex Alkula, a 19-year-old living outside Columbus, Ohio, decide to "go pro," drop out of school and wind up broke and sleeping on their friends' couches.

But you can also wind up broke.

Then, one day, they wind up broke.

The government rescued the banks, and wound up broke.

Over the years, countless stories have been told about winding up broke and alone in the big city, each with its own details and points of tension — I wrote one of my own, for this magazine, in 1999.

But in the years following the suspension of his license, he wound up broke, working as a groom on a Long Island farm and wondering if his personal nightmare would ever end.

Gaming fanatics like Atari's Nolan Bushnell and Electronic Arts ' William (Trip) Hawkins had made fortunes in the young industry, but businessmen lacking any passion for games had a way of winding up broke.

Doing anything to reduce the chance of winding up broke is "savings" in my way of thinking.