And then it starts all over again: I am broken. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I walk faster, stumbling over trash and broken pieces of pavement. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All these years, I never considered the possibility that my father—my well-meaning but occasionally whacked-out father—might be walking around with a broken heart, carrying a pain too awful to talk about. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He shouted at the whole room in a broken mix of German and Polish. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Several shot straight through the window, showering the back row with broken glass. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The debris in the hallway has been swept clean, but the broken lightbulbs haven’t been replaced, so I walk through stretches of darkness, like patches of bruises, on my way to the right cell. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The old rules had changed, fragmented, broken into bits. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He stood looking at the broken ends of branches. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like a trained hunting-bird it clung there, but it wore no broken leash, no band or bell. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She clipped my fingernails smooth where they had broken every which way while I was grabbing at bushes and trees and Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s in the hospital with broken ribs and a concussion,” said Uncle Amin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The broken door slammed shut and then opened again. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I am sure,” said she, “I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller’s regiment went away. I thought I should have broken my heart.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon the vacant lot was littered with blown sneakers and broken hearts. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the broken doll and heard a whimpering sound coming from an open doorway. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just sits on his stool, a blue broken cricket husk. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A horrible red rash has broken out on her neck. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

One day I had talked Call into exploring the house with me, but just as we stepped onto the porch, a huge orange-colored tomcat came shrieking out a broken window at us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One whispered word had done what fists and whips and clubs could not; it had broken him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Storybook magic or no, I was not eager to study under a man whose first set of lessons had left me with three broken ribs, a mild concussion, and a dislocated shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The priest was sufficiently alarmed that he had broken the tenet of parishioner confidentiality. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a sound as of a thin plate of glass broken— laughter. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced at her scars, at her unset broken arm, and wondered if she had been stoned. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Back broken, the bloody man still tried to crawl toward the inn’s door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Your actions contradict your thoughts—you’re dragging us through this maze because you believe this prophecy needs to be enabled—and by that logic prophecies can also be broken—prevented. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Another produced a broken sword with three sapphires in the hilt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fibers of the trees, the clouds, even the air is broken. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The event was late, long after sunset, so Navid and I had already broken our fasts and had dinner before we headed out. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But simply punishing the broken—walking away from them or hiding them from sight—only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The police brought him back with two broken arms, his face bloody and bruised. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was creepy enough from the outside, the Spanish-style architecture crumbling from age, broken windows, a weathered stone cross at the top, all the classic dark-and-stormy-night elements. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and faced him again, now that the moment was broken. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And now, crumpled and broken, he lay on the floor. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Afternoons and weekends, which usually rang with a medley of shouts and laughter and pounding feet, dragged by in a strange, uneasy silence broken only by the dull hum of traffic. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of writing was affixed to him by a broken arrow that stuck out from his body. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

What was it like when your arm was broken? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had two broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, and a sprained wrist. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The landscape changed around us, and the bus groaned as it made its way out of my neighborhood, into streets full of broken buildings. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Most really broken people don’t know they are broken,” Rashid said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I felt my hand meet his jawbone, and I knew that one of my knuckles was broken right then and there. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Our house stood behind a high stone wall which had chips of broken glass sticking up from the top to keep thieves away. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few, finding themselves in places with few or none of their natural enemies, look around with the hopeful incredulity of juvenile delinquents who discover the mall’s security cameras are broken—and wreak havoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then we walked back and forth, picking out broken glass, like chickens pecking seeds. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should they refuse, then and only then will we inform them that the peace is broken, and go forth to give them battle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is a scandal when the public learns they have broken the rules, but no rules need be broken for the systematic mass incarceration of people of color to proceed unabated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ice floated on the dark water in broken pieces—large versions of the puzzle Jack had at his feet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pop the last four chicken nuggets into the toaster and jiggle the broken lever until it stays in the down position. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A sprained ankle instead of a broken one. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They slept hard and didn’t stir when the quiet got broken up by the Temptations. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’d bet a week of bread that some of his ribs are broken. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As some sociologists and marketing consultants see it, the commonly accepted big three—the upper, middle, and working classes—have broken down into dozens of microclasses, defined by occupations or lifestyles. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They also knew the punishments for disobeying the rules, and they knew them well, because they had broken every rule in the Boxton Creek Home. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I thank you. Tell me what I am to do, and I shall not falter!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was that kind of desolate feeling—just looking at huge hills of rubble: of brick and broken wooden slats that had once been houses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candy-store man had hoarded all broken bits of candy for weeks and now passed it out in little bags for all who came begging. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His graceful, streamlined body threw out blazing highlights as he loped with easy speed across the broken ground. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Talk about our fight circulated, the details growing more exaggerated— broken ribs, torn-off fingernails, bite marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt knew Maria hoarded things—worn-out shirts, broken toys, and gift-wrapping paper—and she got hysterical if anything went missing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them was broken and the arrows, incredibly, were still on his belt in the pouch, although messed up with mud and water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also thinks it helps to poke his fingers into the Italians’ faces and speak in broken sentences. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ve just got a broken leg. You’re lucky. This woman here, she was in the car in front of you. She’ll probably never walk again. We think she is paralyzed for life.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The sound of broken glass can cut through other noises, even if it’s just a bottle of wine somebody dropped. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I dragged the garbage off to the side and tossed out the biggest pieces of broken glass. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, I sat on a curb running a piece of broken bottle across my fingertips. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why we can see the same things but come to different conclusions about how to heal all our broken hearts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Wincing slightly, the fellow with the broken ribs decided he would wait until morning to visit the hospital. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Many years later, when Macondo was a field of wooden houses with zinc roofs, the broken and dusty almond trees still stood on the oldest streets, although no one knew who had planted them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She squatted down in front of a glass case full of small objects: vases and jars, some partly cracked or broken, crudely made jewelry and tiny statues. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew how terrible the Waiting Room was—at the very mention of it he had broken into a cold sweat—and he had been the one to condemn Martina with a lie. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was bruised, but nothing was broken; he had taken a little water, but apparently had coughed it out. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that darkness would soon be broken before the dawn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat there, I thought myself a fool for having tried to fix situations that were so fatally broken. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stared at it and thought, This is like our family—broken, shattered into dust. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Two great horned owl eggs lie in the cold snow-rimmed cavity in the broken top of the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the police, a man had broken in and started ransacking the house when he realized that Mr. Kent was home. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The forgotten deities of dead cities brandished their broken thunderbolts at the sky as Dany rode her silver past their feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bast bent to pick up the iron ring by its broken cord, knotting it together again with quick fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So, yeah, I was praying that none of Needles's bones were broken, because like Noodles said, we couldn't take him to the hospital. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They climbed steadily until long after the sun had turned westward; and, though the ground was rough and broken, the path Medwyn had indicated lay clearly before them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t broken open, and neither had the packages of fish. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I find a broken branch that will do for a walking stick and I start off. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A widow’s peak, close-set dark eyes, pinched cheeks, a mustache wriggling like a worm above a mouthful of broken brown teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were anxious about their future and quick to complain should a part of their past get scratched or broken. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’d broken one before, when I fell off my skateboard a few years before, and that felt like somebody had a blowtorch to my gut. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

After his barn was struck by lightning for the third time, he told Sarah about his broken promise to Madame Zeroni. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

After they had broken their fast he gave Aeneas the advice he had come to seek. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her crate lay on the deck, its broken side splintered where Archer had shoved it open. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But Longstreet was right, of course: he had broken the vow. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers have found them—they've broken through the floorboards and dug them out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Sprouting up from every one of the broken faults in the basketball court grew giant weeds and sticker bushes as high as our waists. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then I felt the field give way, as I had broken through . . . the cells looked as though someone had put a tiny hand grenade into each one—the whole culture had just blown apart! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was broken, dead-eyed, with my night bag still on my shoulder and the utterly useless folded map in my pocket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She looked down at my feet, then at Clarisse’s broken spear, and said, “Step out of the water, Percy.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then she added, “But even the strongest can be broken by torture.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was symmetry, both complete and carefully broken. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how long he’d been up there, but his foot was swollen and purplish and the white of his eyes was replaced by red, like the vessels had broken. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sorrowful silence was broken by my mother’s voice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the broken stool—the seat, legs, and scattered wood chips— then brought the pieces out to the trash can. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two wood display cases are knocked onto their sides, and all the treasures from around the Muslim world are broken and scattered. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was the year my mother died, my apartment got broken into, and I was taken to the emergency room suffering from what the attending physician diagnosed as "housewife's knee." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He borrows some toothpaste, squats at the river, dips his toothbrush into the murky water, and cleans his broken teeth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She’d never been sure whether that curse had been broken when she had died the first time. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I clean up the shining shards of broken glass. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Another clue to its human origin is the broken ceramics with which it is usually mixed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wanted to give a lecture on his new art form but by this time the formality was broken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it wasn’t broken. Sister Benedicta told me someone had forgotten to close it.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The weary, frightening journey began again, broken only by alarms. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ship lay on its side, swamped and broken, its back snapped. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He starts to pick up the broken glass. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Rungs existed at regular intervals, but some of them had broken, and one even broke under his foot, sending him slamming against the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was exciting even though all he’d seen so far was garbage, clothes, broken ship parts and more garbage. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was warm now, and she would be crossing a shadeless expanse of grass, broken by straight asphalt paths and public shelters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sign was rimmed with broken bulbs that looked like rotten teeth. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then, in the soft light of the moon, he began to paint on a broken wall with broad strokes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There, unknown to any of the caretakers, was a small broken window. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The message was repetitious, mechanical, broken by regular, untiring intervals. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Once, a younger cousin who had tried to imitate him had fallen down the red clay staircase in Ashoke’s house and broken an arm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took the old man’s hand and said in a broken voice:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The look she gave him was broken glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The dog’s teeth had not broken the boy’s skin, but his pant leg was torn, and he was trembling as if he had palsy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio’s head drooped as if Capricorn had broken his neck with nothing but a few softly spoken words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Let us as much as possible, train out creepers, and branches of trees, upon bridges, pulling down and nailing the branches, aiming to obtain shade and reflection of foliage and broken obscuration of water.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The glass in one of them is broken, so it is just a frame. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I watched the sudden round puffs of shrapnel smoke in the sky above a broken farmhouse near where the line was; soft puffs with a yellow white flash in the centre. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No, sugar, were not broken. We’re just the ones who need attention right now.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

There was a bullet hole in the doorframe and broken glasses of Star beer, a popular brand in the country, and empty cigarette packets on the verandah floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I gathered what scrawny courage I had and waded through waist-high weeds to the porch, all broken tile and rotting wood, to peek through a cracked window. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden paling around it, broken by a small wooden gate, and at length—there being nobody in sight to ask—we walked through to the garden and so to the house. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I turned and walked away through the litter and broken glass of the empty, middle-of-the-night street, they were following close behind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the dusty light Hugo saw broken model ships and heads of statues and old signs and piles of shattered doors. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I wake up early, after just a few hours of broken sleep. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step through it instead of opening it and follow the members through an eerie, dark entry way, crunching broken glass beneath my feet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Several others were fidgeting with little pieces of metal and wood from a broken bed, the way Tyson always played with spare parts. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, her eyes run over my face, as if she’s been told to check for bruises or maybe something deeper and even more broken. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So broken that she couldn’t put it back together on her own, and that she’d moved into a place to get help. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After the plane had passed, she got up and hurried on to the airfield in her broken shoes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The first week of Mr. Quisling’s challenge was a wash, since everyone’s submitted ciphers had been broken. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, a broken window illuminates a swaybacked bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He examined her broken fingers, then got into her face again, his voice low with promise. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a flash it’s airborne, then in my hand, and his face has broken into five million pieces of happiness. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

With only his feeble flashlight for illumination, he fought through the piled-up garbage, climbing over wedged chairs, crates, and broken partitions. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His greathelm sported a ram’s horns, one of which was broken. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You’d think this lady’d be smiling, but she looks angry or out to prove something, like when Mom comes to me with a broken cereal bowl, or my report card. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Marriages that haven’t been paid for can be broken like old pots.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took it down to the river intending to wash it, shook it clear of dust and broken glass. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand was bleeding from the glass I had broken, and not knowing what else to do, I put my hand into my pocket to prevent the blood from staining her freshly scrubbed linoleum. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to return to grammar school violence, the cherished honor of the schoolyard that wasn’t honor at all, the necessity of proving yourself by bloody noses and black eyes and broken teeth. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spook at every sound: rats cheeping in the trash, broken bricks settling in the night. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even my left leg, which isn’t broken, looks so useless I don’t try to move it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Alex can see it now—this is how he was broken down over the years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Annabeth tried to speed up, but she couldn’t go much faster without losing her balance or jarring her broken ankle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He felt the smash of truncheons on his elbows and iron-shod boots on his shins; he saw himself groveling on the floor, screaming for mercy through broken teeth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It turned out she’d broken her leg tripping over one of her cats, and she didn’t seem quite as fond of them as before. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She clasped her hands and then explained the extent of the injuries: broken bones, punctured lung, internal bleeding, brain swelling. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good, no? And it’s so true. Without love, we are birds with broken wings. “ Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cleopatra realized Octavian’s aide had broken into the chamber, she tried to stab herself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

After the young birds are hatched the charm is broken; but each winter these days of perfect peace come, and they are called after her, Alcyone, or, more commonly, Halcyon days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was grateful the silence had been broken. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He swung the broken sword wildly, knocking the hand away and notching it deep into the meat of the mercenary’s arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had been broken by the two battles which he had fought already, the one at Dover, the other at Barham Down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the boy with the runny nose gave two apples to the boy with the broken teeth and they all went back to the fields. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate felt her ribs and said nothing was broken. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a restrained blow, dealt with the side of his foot, but the man groaned like something had broken deep inside him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a bizarre makeshift barricade just beyond the broken gate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The whole assembled group followed as Werfel carefully picked his way among the giant curls and shards of broken glass with Regibald, dressed in full armor, clanking behind him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And as Lord Asriel tried to keep his footing on the broken rocks, something shattering happened to the back of his head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The swineherd led him to the manor later in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken, propped on a stick. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trash is heaped near the main entrance steps—plastic cups, fast-food wrappers, broken beer bottles—all partially hidden underneath a thin dusting of snow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because, beyond the military disadvantage losing a Mockingjay entails, I am broken. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The league, in their view, was inherently fragile and fissiparous; if it had been founded a thousand years ago, it would have broken up well before the Pilgrims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They passed a glass box of broken puppets, and an overgrown golden music box in a glass case. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry for your sister and your face and your broken head.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was broken by scornful snorts and derisive laughter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I tried again to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously: my inward tranquillity was broken. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He knew Isannah’s childish squeals were nothing compared to the serious charge Mr. Lyte had brought against him, but the squeals had just about broken his heart. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those few seconds, his heart must have broken. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t stealing it,” said Hugo, who looked up at the old man and said, “I dropped it! It’s broken again.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But he’d given what was left of his broken heart to the cause. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One table-leg was too short, but she propped it up with a bit of broken dish. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If her back was broken, it was over. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind that he hasn’t completely broken off with S., though there is some progress on that front. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Ifyouwantto step on broken glass, Uriah, be my guest,” she snaps. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The entire Hephaestus cabin scoured the valley, finding bits and pieces of the Argo ITs broken hull, but no sign of Festus the dragon or his master. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Jamal had hurt his hand, maybe even broken it, but he was okay except for being winded. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sure he had broken every bone in his body. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now it was nothing more than one storey, maybe two, of jagged edges, melted poles, and broken cement. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A pile of cans and jars lay beneath the shelves, all of them dented and squashed and broken, scattered across the floor. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But Siddhartha knew what his friend was thinking —probably that the boy would have thrown the oar away or broken it out of revenge and to prevent their following him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still another where my father and brother are still alive and my mother is not broken. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To his horror, he saw Ryan reach into the pocket of his parka and pull out a crushed crash helmet and a little red motorcycle broken in two. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a broken drum heralding the announcement of the death of a king. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I might have broken a couple of your ribs,” the man said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Them be all broken, them people. But there be plenty of food. And it’s quiet-like, and nice.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor thing had two broken legs and a dislocated shoulder, and its fur was all shredded-up and bloody ’cause the thorns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At a second blow the door yielded and fell back, with timbers burst and lock broken. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Marshal fired at them, and then jumped out of a window, his arm broken. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The U.S. military had, in fact, broken many of the key Japanese codes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not going to pay for Julian’s broken nose.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We all tried to get it open a bunch of different ways, but it’s painted shut or broken or something. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The switchboard put her through to a helpful nasal voice, and then the connection was broken and she had to start again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“There never was such a cross family!” cried Jo, losing her temper when she had upset an inkstand, broken both boot lacings, and sat down upon her hat. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was broken and her pride was gone, so she told those who asked what had happened. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ralph thought of the boar that had broken through them with such ease. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dandy’s eyes flickered away and back, but Bod was no longer by the broken statue. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As though she held the broken pieces of her heart together in the crook of a frozen arm. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were broken toys, bits of rusted tin, as if a careless child had left them out in the rain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Feliciano held his handcuff chain and walked the man toward the opposite wall, where the windows had been broken by the inmate with the mop handle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born all broken and twisted, and he was born mad. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shell may be broken, and even portions of it removed, and yet after a certain lapse of time the injured parts will be repaired by a deposition of shelly matter at the fractured parts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I said that to you, mi niña. Sometimes I get worn-out and I say things I shouldn’t say. You are not a bad girl. You are a broken girl.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We fling remarks at them in broken French, anything that comes into our heads, hastily and all jumbled together, anything to detain them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it was with its small, furry head curled unnaturally backward due to a broken neck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No stone lions for me, she thought, no oleanders; I have broken the spell of Hill House and somehow come inside. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had reached the Mountain’s foot on its northern side, and a little to the westward; there its long grey slopes, though broken, were not sheer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had rather taken it for granted that whenever you rode a horse you risked a broken neck. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely they’d broken the sound barrier but were moving too fast to notice. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Side by side, they looked down the hall filled with broken beams and tiles and soot and destruction. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the final climax came with the front of Holman’s bootery broken out and the party trying on the shoes in the display window only Gay didn’t hear the fire whistle. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure his nose is broken. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Like whatever mechanism in their tiny brains that makes webs is broken. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Looking like victims of a war, the dwellings had broken windows, parts of walls missing, and large holes in the roofs. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold then, and when the sun went down they built small fires from broken crates they found in the alleys and with branches they tore from the tamaric and willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt saw an older, heavy-set woman limping towards him and waving her arms like a broken windmill. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It made me sad to walk through those broken towns. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were old and broken down but most had been wrecked and they looked it—bent, arched, twisted, the impression they gave was of crumpled paper, not steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Under my arm is my CSA portfolio of broken blobs and bowls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His face was still sad, but he wasn't broken. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

This was the thing from the Bottle Tree forest, from the broken bottle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s hand was in terrible pain, and Isabelle’s foot felt like it was broken, but they tried desperately to keep the old man from destroying his drawings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The kind of contact she hadn’t had in years, wrapping around and around her like a bandage, until all the broken things inside her were held fast, secure in the loop of Archer’s arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Organic matter is broken down as it passes through the digestive tracts of the worms and the soil is enriched by their excretory products. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After that he went back to working in the stables and speaking broken English. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold him down as she forces him to swallow a pill that makes him go floppy and then she cleans out his broken teeth and puts a cream in his eye. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The one with the broken nose still thought it was funny. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was happy when the glare of the winter light ceased to pierce the broken shade of the kitchen window; it interfered with his thinking. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He waved them on, all squeaking as bats will in a cavern’s underworld, all flitting, flitting criss-cross in the dark if one falls and the rock-hung chain is broken. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paths were treacherous with black ice, and hoarfrost sparkled in the moonlight on the broken panes of the Glass Gardens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Giuseppe,” the mother said again, in a soft, broken chord of muted anguish. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well...is my father wearing a straw fedora, and is my mother walking with a broken heel?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His broken leg made the decision for him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The path was paved with broken stones on one side and gleaming white diamond-shaped tiles on the other. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lourdes imagines these pieces, broken and bruised in unspeakable places, on piers and in alleyways, drifting down the river to the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mudd told the soldiers the bare bones of what had happened: Two strangers on horseback arrived near daybreak, one had a broken leg, and he set the bone. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw piles of rolled rugs, broken benches, a tangle of plumbing pipes, even a claw-foot bathtub. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“People will pass by and bump into it, and pieces will be broken.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got on the phone and spoke in broken English, saying, “I no pay! I no pay!” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He says like Pele, they don’t even have balls to play with, but they can hit rocks and cans and even once an old broken shoe, gone! Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I think he was kind of broken from losing the farm. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I stepped on a piece of broken glass,” I tell her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said: “It will end here tonight. I will be yours for this one night, and then the curse shall be broken.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottle of ink settles as though it had never been broken. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A car pulled up to where Noa stood, cradling her broken hand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It flew into the spokes of his broken bike and burst. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Work crews were repairing a broken section, probably damaged in the recent battle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To make processed food, corn is first broken down into different parts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"My hand," the guardsman yelped, cradling his broken fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They did not go far, for on the floor lay many old bones, and nothing else was to be seen near the entrance except some great empty jars and broken pots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Instead he had broken the great fleet into squadrons, and sent each by a different route to Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the same soldier who, when they arrived at the training camp, a former primary school with buildings sheathed in palm fronds, shaved Ugwu’s hair with a piece of broken glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This cannot be your secret. The dragon is broken. Its fire is gone.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They found a path on the landward side of the dunes, then they were crossing a sandy lawn strewn with broken bottles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Between the Isles of Ithaka and Same the sea is broken by an islet, Asteris, with access to both channels from a cove. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to curl myself around Rose's back, but the intimacy was further broken by RiRi’s feet thrown backwards over Rose’s knees so that they jabbed into my legs like rounded icicles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And she threw a wedge of the broken plate at me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched, certain that it was about to impale itself on the broken limb, but the jagged spear of hard wood barely dimpled its chest before splintering. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Over the years, Dr. Randolph has cured us kids of everything from chicken pox to broken bones. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the boy’s legs and pulled off his shoes, then slashed the soles of his feet with a piece of broken bottle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The door in the rock was solid iron, broken only by a narrow slot through which to pass the prisoner’s meals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Francis was more composed than me, but he was downing the glasses of house wine one after another, and a light sweat had broken out on his forehead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Bobby was stunned, and shivering with fright, his legs bleeding slightly where the stick had broken the skin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t. I don’t think that’s a fair exchange for a broken arm. I think you’re getting the best end of the deal.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can't effectively fight abusive power, poverty, inequality, illness, oppression, or injustice and not be broken by it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So what could have broken through a mountain nicknamed the Shield? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was only a temporary check, so the branch had broken, but it showed how close they were. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your cute little code was broken like that.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Crouching in the house of Juan Tomas, they heard the shock go into their neighbors’ minds at the news of the broken boat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a good guy,” I say, my voice a broken whisper. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your Baconian cipher would have been broken anyway,” Emily said as James held the stack of papers behind him, hovering over his wide-open backpack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I took out the notepad that the guard had given me, and dug around in the bottom of my backpack until I came up with a pencil that didn’t have a broken tip. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every window on its facade has been broken but the walls are hardly scorched; two of its wooden flower boxes hang on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His brown hand still clutched the hilt of a broken sword. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The blood and broken bones on the pavement will settle their wager. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was doggedly determined to fight the election on his record—and a broken record was just what he sounded like. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I only had a broken arm and a broken leg, even though I could’ve sworn everything was busted. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “Maybe your vocal cords actually are broken. You should go to a specialist.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

These are the used sections—broken bones, cuts, bruises, mumps, measles, backache, scarlet fever, diphtheria, rheumatism, female complaints, hernia, and of course everything to do with pregnancy and the birth of children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The raven falls to the ground, its wings bent and broken. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Steam lines had broken, and the steam was hissing out Heat from the fire washed over us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war council convened in the Great Hall, at four long trestle tables arranged in a broken square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And the wood floor was all scuffed up and broken down in places, especially by the door. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe a broken wing, or sternum, or tail. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Evenings, I threw the ball for Tilly, helped Dad repair some of his broken crab pots, and even offered to help my mother with the dishes one night when it wasn’t my turn. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It spoils my day with selfdisgust when I hear my broken voice come skittering out into the open. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He looked all broken up. I don’t think he will be good for another race. Horses, mister, can have crushed hearts just like humans.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the mood was broken and a new mood took over the villagers as the sound from the clarinet reached them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I realize: I have waited outside in the cold gray-lit car-exhausted frigidity and caused the possible broken bones in Gary's hand to hear a band that is, manifestly, not Neutral Milk Hotel. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The Dark Tower was broken, but its foundations were not removed; for they were made with the power of the Ring, and while it remains they will endure. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No doubt he’d broken the pencil on purpose, but it wasn’t something you could prove, and so the teacher nodded and told him to hustle it up. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sewing machine tumbled down the stairwell, broken beyond repair. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The awkward silence that followed was mercifully broken by Piper, tugging on Maniac’s arm: “Where’s my birthday present? Wha’d you get me?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within an hour they had pulled at least a mile away from Patience Camp, which was now lost forever in the broken pack behind them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“It feels like I’m wearing broken glass,” I tell him honestly. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Two wooden gates hung open, and from the other side of the road, Alex could see a shed with a security window and beyond it the tottering piles of dead and broken cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s something, but, to be honest, I feel like my mind is broken into a hundred tiny pieces, and most of them are still back in California. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that’s why I had it. My brain had to remind me that I’m broken.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“At best, her bones are simply broken, but if it’s more than that...” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The cop picked up his broken watch and hustled Scruggs to a private room at the back of the store. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he handed the broken jar to Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He stands up holding a string with broken egg yolk on the end. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They speak in their special language, half in broken English, half in their own Chinese dialect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was broken, soon to die, but still the words slipped out in a steady whisper. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the cool bay wind blew in through the broken windows. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sanctity of the law...and the wisdom to know when it must be broken. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Klansmen were the descendants of failed farmers and broken mill hands just like himself. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He held it very carefully, like a bird with a broken wing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Their armor was all dented and gashed, the chainmail riven, broken, slashed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the cabin loft, she stared at the broken egg in her hand, and with one mighty toss, she hurled it against the wall. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had put a stolen watch into a jewelry shop to replace a broken crystal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy turned to a blank page, pushed his taped glasses up the broken bridge of his nose, and looked at the judge. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A broken leg was one thing, but a zmeyok’s bite was completely different. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

One can go readily from the cup on the table in the past to the broken cup on the floor in the future, but not the other way round. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two lamps are broken near the “goal” of the fireplace. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

A nice breeze comes through the broken window. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He tried not to think of all the ways she was broken. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We looked for treasures among the discarded stoves and refrigerators, the broken furniture and stacks of bald tires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was fighting now with every little fraction of his strength, digging the paddle deep, leaning into the stroke, heaving hard—and nursing the broken thing, which was finally coming apart. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, about that...she’s still in trouble, we think. Hurt, broken leg, maybe—at least according to this vision Gaea showed us. Rescuing her is our next stop.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He moves the broken wings and reaches inside, twisting something with a clicking noise. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His frame was delicate, his wrists as narrow as mine, with knobs of bone that looked like they could be broken off like hard candy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well...some of it with a broken ankle.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The coded Soviet telegrams couldn’t be used in a public court, because the Americans didn’t want the Soviets to know they had broken their code. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wound through the trees and did not follow any ordinary trail that had been broken in by hunters or the deer they chased. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how his face had broken out. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened intently to the hiss, then he touched his broken faceplate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she knew the gods were too incapacitated to pay attention to Ogygia, and so the island’s magic was broken. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the connections had never been broken, she now saw, and anyway her parents were absent in their different ways, Briony was lost to her fantasies and Leon was in town. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I kept going down and came to a broken pillar. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In trying to stop him, the officer had broken his dental plate, the inmate complained; and all he’d been trying to swallow anyway, he said, was a written note. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A survivor of the brutal pogroms that had spread across Russia over a decade ago, Motke had seen the faces of the dead and broken everywhere he looked—his wife, his friends, his neighbors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On each side of the Hearse, fields of squat, luminously green plants stretched out into a gray forever, broken up only by the occasional horse pasture, barn, or stand of trees. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was quiet in the woods, but here the quiet was right, and it was broken by the sound of wild things, which seemed a promise. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The area was enclosed by a high brick wall topped with broken glass and razor wire. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

So it was that, even as the Captains were about to turn away, the silence was broken suddenly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Conor stood breathing for a second, thinking about the broken clock, about the scratches on the hardwood, about the poisonous berries dropping from the monster onto his grandma’s clean floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They climbed over the sill and moved sideways down through the broken tiles to the gutter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never at- I tended because a fistfight broke out between hecklers and hillbillies and I was busy in the X-ray room taking shots of broken knuckles and metacarpals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And I think of Grammy’s puzzles, all broken up until someone puts them together. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

On the hills to the south stood the broken old city wall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the windows on the second floor had been broken by unruly students or in after-hours fights. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rock bounded on, thumping and smashing toward the beach, while a shower of broken twigs and leaves fell on him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was broken crockery scattered among the remains of furniture and charred floorboards. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you’re lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you’re broken inside. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Globes of thinly blown sugar sit on each plate and must be broken open in order to access the clouds of cream within. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I’m broken, or the world is broken. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But for the rest of the world, the words just don’t want to come out, like part of my mouth or my brain is broken. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In a way, he still looked like Westley, except, of course, that he had been broken. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I began to cherish hopes I had no right to conceive: that the match was broken off; that rumour had been mistaken; that one or both parties had changed their minds. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kicking the rat over on his back, she flung the broken blade away and grabbed the rodent’s tail tightly with both paws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I push my way through limbs that scratch my face like broken glass, faster and faster, because I can hear screaming. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While the soup cooked, I swept the kitchen floor clean of the broken crockery. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had eaten, Francie at last faced the fact that she had broken the fast which started at midnight and was to have lasted until after mass next morning. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please stay broken as long as I am.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He tries to keep this a secret, but it’s a small community, and soon his parents find out he hasn’t broken up with the woman. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My trunk was broken open and the contents scattered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Some of her fingernails were broken off and bloodied, as if she’d tried to scratch herself out of a box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The broken shoes of two thousand Galveston longshoremen that Mr. Mallory would never pay fifty cents an hour like the white ones. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, White could see that the girl had broken free and was running. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The broken Ares flag raced past us and lodged in Charybdis s braces. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day half the toys were missing parts, broken, or trampled. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She cleaned it as well as she could with Uncle Kufa’s broken knife and soon had it boiling over a crackling fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around from where I sit on top of hot rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully and neady I line up the cane, straightening the broken places. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Startled by the sudden rise of a flock of geese from the roadside, the horses had broken into a canter. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The day was cold and clear, but her shawl was warm and her boots stout and well broken in. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart, on the other hand, was all broken up by the event. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I returned after more than ten thousand miles the engine was only well broken in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have kissed him, blotchy skin and broken veins and all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The keys on Robbie's piano had a subtle unevenness of color and shape, places where bits of the ivory had broken off over time, leaving them looking like a set of bad teeth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The train that took Toño from us is the one that left the broken boy in the dust. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

To their “Why not?” pouting faces I said, “This presentation is for the people. For Bobby Hutton and Huey Newton. It’s not for singing about your broken heart to your long-lost mother.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Winterfell’s walls were strong as well, but Winterfell stands in ruins today, burned and broken. A wall is only as good as the men defending it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he upended the box and shook it too and slowly replaced the papers and stood again, looking at the broken lock, with the box in his hands and his head bent. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had meant playing with a broken ankle that wasn’t x-rayed because, if it had been known that it was broken, the player would have had to sit out the next game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking across the lot, he noticed that the padlock on the gate had been broken with a heavy chunk of cinderblock. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there was a sound of a heavy body pushing through the underbrush, accompanied by a sharp cracking of branches, and the spell was broken. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We use one pail for shells and one for rocks so that the shells don’t get broken. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A mansion by any account, three stories and all gables and massive windows—many of them broken now—and fancy brickwork. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A salting of broken glass glinted in the summer sun. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He knew, for instance, that Mr. Lyte had a broken front tooth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald remembers a bar of French chocolate he bought on his way home, and this is unwrapped, broken apart, and passed around the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were circles of charcoal, tire tracks off side roads and, since the men came back from the war, broken bottle glass all over the reservation. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘I already had typhoid. I had pneumonia and a broken leg and a infected foot.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The main force of the flood was broken up here and baffled by the trees, which was why the canoe hadn’t been torn loose and swept away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I told him about the tuxedo on the chair, and how I had broken the vase, and found the key, and the locksmith, and the envelope, and the art supply store. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell him I’d broken into a house or any of that. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Joseph noticed that the lock on the window was broken and the frame had warped so the window couldn’t shut completely. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She trimmed the broken twig ends, so that the cuts would be cleaner, less apt to harbor disease. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A path of broken rectangles and rhombi spilled crazily down the stairs, coming to rest on the heads of the wooden monkeys at the base. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every window on every floor had been broken out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I could see in his eyes how broken they’d left him, what this had done already to his faith. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike street crimes, they do not leave behind a corpse or a broken window. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Not practice? For twenty-four hours? Be still, my broken heart,” Mom says. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Aunt Letty had fallen on bare boards or even on the carpet, I suppose all her bones would have been broken: but by great good luck she had fallen on the mattress. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

If anything, they were more comfortable than the newer pair for being a little broken in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A thunderclap filled the hall, a light burst like a crimson sun, and the broken weapon fell in pieces to the ground. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She hit the ground hard and lay there as broken branches and pinecones and needles showered down on top of her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His nose had obviously been broken at least once, which made his smile look even more sinister. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I folded my hands across my chest, as if to keep my broken heart from falling clean out of my body. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The silence of the long drive was broken only by an occasional observation from Meaghan. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they were done, dinner had broken up and the others were going about their particular evening routines. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As he slashed at the sweater with his broken weapon, the ladies began to dash out the Royal Street end of the alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young kids openly resented their parents’ dawdling in the Store and Uncle Willie would call them in and spread among them bits of sweet peanut patties that had been broken in shipping. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly anybody is out at this hour, so it still feels quiet, with just the sound of our munching on the broken treats. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I had left the tribe, and had broken something inside all of us, and I was now being punished for that. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the broken rope and that was as far as he could go. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When listening to music, sound vibrations enter the auditory cortex and are instantaneously broken down into elements of pitch, timbre, spatial relations, and tone duration. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“He was at the bottom of a drop-off with a broken neck.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His voice was rough and strong, and even if he was broken, he would put himself back together. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The slope was littered with brittle dead logs and broken branches, the debris of many cold, windy winters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fridge still worked, even lying on its side, and they cleaned out the broken glass the best they could. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Butterflies by the thousands fluttered maniacally before the headlights then exploded like tiny half-angels on the windshield leaving a scant yellow paint and the dust of broken wings as a final signature. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were thick with cataracts and sunken into folds of transparent skin, and her whole face was dotted with broken veins and liver spots. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the air and at the girl’s fingertips, stuck in her hair and in blades of grass, like she had just broken free. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They ate in the church and slept in one or other of the many abandoned houses in the village; that was the rule and it could not be broken. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then, in her best broken Elven, she said to her guest, “Take part! I demanding you plant you face in meat and starts to bite!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The presumption in those practice sessions was that he'd be rescuing a crewmate whose tether had broken, but the principle was the same. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, however, hadn’t: the hole had been made by a bronze arrowhead which was still in it, and its edges were sharp and broken, so you could tell it was different. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her I was playing ninja and had tackled Viv and accidentally broken her nose. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nailer shivered at the sight of the broken rich girl. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

With scarcely time for a final glance at our home, and at Uncle Yousef and Aunt Najah shuffling in the chill gray dawn, we drive off, crunching over rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There she is, below the tree on the other side of the wall, next to a broken branch. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her English is thick and broken, syrupy and hypnotizing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The day I finally met the Rivera girl, I’d broken free of my parents’ latest argument to sit outside on the curb and play Tetris on my phone, when my mom stormed out. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"A green boy," said Stannis, "and another false king. Am I to accept a broken realm?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Other broken objects rested there as well, including the jagged fragments of the ceramic pot Kendra had noticed earlier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mance Rayder’s host had broken against the Wall like a wave upon a stony shore, though the defenders were no more than a handful of old men, green boys, and cripples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The most compelling new idea that Bratton brought to life stemmed from the broken window theory, which was conceived by the criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The problem is that I’ve never had my heart broken, so I’m having a hard time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Young Griff pushed the Shy Maid away from a broken tower whose windows stared down like blind black eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then the spell was broken, shattered with the first gunshot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the Memorial Hospital, Hooper lay with his broken leg hoisted up in the air, and played Snakes and Ladders with Mrs Helena Kingshaw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They’d ransacked the place, purposely leaving it a mess to make it look as if some junkie had broken in looking for drugs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’d broken his nose but he was trying to apologize to me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out from their feet were flung huge buttresses and broken hills that were now at the nearest scarce a dozen miles away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"I shall dispatch them as soon as we have broken our fast." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, I spied the broken space in the latticework that wrapped around the foundation of the house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aurora would not, but a few vows have been broken. The punishment is severe. The one at fault is banished to live alone in the Underland,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A storm of light fell upon the river and Montag dived under the great illumination as if the sun had broken the clouds. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

What those rich people don’t always know is that broken and forgotten neighborhoods were first built out of love. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As I spoke my anger and bitterness turned from Ashe against myself and my own life, which lay behind me like a broken promise. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its jaws were slightly open, showing many broken and missing teeth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

His leaving hurt like the punch of finality that only comes from a broken heart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had quit my search for the mallow root in my haste to return to the castle, and I tried to ignore the pricking of guilt, trusting that Elnora would forgive my broken promise. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was aware of the fact that our history was littered with the white man’s broken promises. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was broken open in a diner and was put together again by a doll mender. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She’s ashamed of the way we look with the dirty old torn shirts, raggedy ganseys, broken shoes, holes in our stockings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the cops came, he was still gripping the broken bottle in his hand, and watching his own blood flow between the fingers of his fist and drip on the Mexican’s oiled wood floor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice got a little broken around the edges. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And the rest, some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rush him past the hate, past the broken concrete, down the hill, and to the four walls of his own room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At the top of the door was a stained-glass fanlight with a panel broken out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that my bicycle was broken and that I was walking back to town. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deliberately turning away from the cloak, she laid the herbal in her trunk beside the broken mirror, and she did her best to ignore the phantom presence of the moonstone ring on her hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basically my strategy was don’t get my neck broken, don’t try to kill anybody either. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He held them like he was holding a broken heart, looked around only to find that Marcus and the boys had left him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the milk bottles had broken, but a few were intact. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The broken glass clicked, ground, and splintered beneath his heel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Bloody heads and eyes cut with broken bottles. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Had it been anyone but a scythe, his broken body would have been rushed to the nearest revival center, but rules for scythes were very clear. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“They say Brother Eugene’s never been the same since Room Nineteen. They say he’s all broken up over it. Can’t eat or sleep. The shock.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, Quendy is just like a kind of broken, little economy model of Calista, and she knows that, and feels real bad about it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught my arm in a grip I could have broken, but I let him hold on. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When it was still breakable but not yet broken. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There was an astonished silence, broken by the deep, amused voice of a man. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked in the direction from which we had come, and when I reached the timberline, I collected wood broken from the cherry tree, the peony, and the walnut, which is the tree of life. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living black carried with it certain rules, and there were dire consequences if those rules were broken. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the monster barreled past, I drove the broken horn straight into his side, right up under his furry rib cage. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is a small white statue of an angel with broken arms. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Worse, in April he had broken the news that he was dropping out of college. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Northward he looked, and the Great River lay like a ribbon beneath him, and the Misty Mountains stood small and hard as broken teeth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, when the sky grew dark, Sister Gladys gave her an injection to make her sleep and to lessen the pain of the broken wrist. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no text, only photograph after photograph of broken tablets with the inscriptions—in Linear B—reproduced in facsimile in the bottom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nailer remembered the time when his father, high and angry, had taken a man twice his size, blurringly fast, a broken bottle and blood on the ground. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But once beaten and broken in battle so that he cannot regroup his troops, there is nothing else to be feared than the ruler’s family. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s lobbing a ball to a kid beneath the broken hoop. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Look at the building—you walk in and it smells like urine, you walk up the stairs and it’s dark, broken lights. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Craig, in his ambling and smiley way, had conveniently broken every trail for me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The boy lay unconscious, his arms, legs, and back were all broken. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I busied myself cleaning up the broken beaker, content for once to be a lowly prentice with no hand in this business. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links of broken chain dangled from its bloodstained neck, dragging along dirt roads and clanking as it walked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My concentration was broken two hours later by a voice behind me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sol told him my back had been broken when a dead horse fell out of the sky and killed my mother. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I knew how lucky I was to have escaped with no broken bones, but I’d been truly frightened. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I saw my mother’s face, the smile the boy with the broken mouth had given me, like he had recognized something of himself in me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The scene would unlock with the quick, heavy thud of a body on a hood, then warp-speed into a scrambled collage of bent limbs and black pavement and broken glass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was like driving a car in the rain when the windshield wipers are broken; you can’t see a thing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled woodsmoke and passed a stack of old lobster traps, blown over and the staves broken in, then a heap of firewood guarded pitifully by some old barrels, also broken. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Boggs wears a flesh-colored plastic mask from his upper lip to his brow — I was right about the broken nose—so his expression’s hard to read. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The year before, an inmate had broken a bone in his face and he’d needed six stitches. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a handsome face, made slightly uneven by his nose, which had been broken at some time in the past. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Mountain would come into the storehouse after he had broken his fast and pick one of the prisoners for questioning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was determined to stick it out and do his part to heal what was broken in the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, why are my legs all broken?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

News of the race negotiations had broken the day before—Howard had undoubtedly leaked it to the press—and the response was nationwide jubilation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself bounce, sail off like a ball thrown over the roof into mist, striking a hidden wall beyond a pile of broken machinery and sailing back. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had broken the track record by four seconds, the equivalent of some twenty-five lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone shouted down the alley, one of the new boys most likely, not completely broken in by Connelly yet, and the shouts cracked open into a dispute. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The building itself wasn’t that imposing; it was only called the Tower because it stuck up like a broken finger in a sea of one-story wooden shacks arranged in rings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had frequently invited me along, but I had no desire to have my back broken again. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Part of the distance they rode in the car, and after disembarking, passed the Pontellier mansion, which looked broken and half tom asunder. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Command-ments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Worse, he had a piece of broken glass wrapped with twine at one end, making a crude knife. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Buildings spill broken walls and splintered roofs across our path. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A sudden and stark silence fell over the world, broken only by the distant cries of a bird. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You did all that alone. With a broken ankle.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’d broken it while biting a ring off one of her stepmother’s toes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was before Billy had his head broken in an airplane crash, by the way—before he became so vocal about flying saucers and traveling in time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Begging in the gutter, a broken old woman bent into the sum of her mistakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Leo scanned the workshop, now littered with smoking pieces of broken spheres. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, even an old ladle with a broken handle might be used later for scooping ashes from the fire or digging up cattail roots on a fetch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even in the muggy evening air, they’d hardly broken a sweat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He lifted up a broken leaf for them to see, a large pale leaf of golden hue, now fading and turning brown. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the gully, which lay along the edge of a rock-fault, was rough with broken stone and slanted steeply down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then he put the photograph in the breast pocket of his shirt, cast another glance at the empty square, and threw the torch through the broken window into Capricorn's house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He looked like someone trying to feed a vulture broken in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Only worse, because she’d broken the world she was abandoning them to. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The parties don’t end until someone gets shot or a bottle gets broken on someone’s face. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The only visible wisp of discord was the broken glass in the windows of Jewish businesses. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Not seeing you there on the floor . . . crumpled and broken.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sunflower I’d been nursing along was broken in half, the yellow petals pummeled into the dirt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And the paints that Osh had so carefully brewed were now splashed across the house in mad streaks, his beautiful clean paper in shreds, the legs of his easel broken. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And the boy answers: ‘I would be a healer. I would take the broken bodies of men and mend them.’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence reigned in the Pavilion of Thought, broken only by the wheels of ladders and the shush of pages turning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That was how we discovered that the corners of my growth plates had broken off. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Trampita yanked off two of its broken branches and gave me one. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The race was wild, replete with broken rules and injured animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We probably would’ve broken up in those early weeks were it not for my house. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the last day of August, his grandmother packs his clothes: his bathing trunks with the elastic band broken at the waist, his buckled sandals, the round straw hat he’s taken to wearing indoors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I let her talk, let her voice counter the unspoken, insistent ones that emanate from my broken mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Still holding the broken tip of the sword in his bloody hand, the mercenary took another step toward Chronicler. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Annabeth collapsed on a broken slab of marble, too exhausted to take another step. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I felt a little too old to feel this emotional, so broken up, I had no words to describe the fissure I felt widening inside me—but I also felt like, why? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers rubbed against the coarse bark of the oak, broken up like burnt cornflakes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

At many places it is only eighteen inches high, it is broken by holes, and craters, and mountains of earth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something of the brute about him with that broken nose, but Sarai found herself lingering longer in the appraisal of him than she had over any of the others, save the golden one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wasn't sure if I wanted to join in on this weird Twiz-fest that had suddenly broken out. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then another hoarse scream erupted, sudden and desperate and just as suddenly silenced, broken off by lurid, ripping bone snap. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She finally had a decent year in the Games with Peeta and me, and now it’s all broken down into a mess that even she can’t put a positive spin on. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bulging tongues of ice had broken doors off their hinges, and through their splintered jambs I could see evidence of a raid: kicked- over furniture, drawers torn open, snows of paper on the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His curly beard was green and white with lichen, and one of the prongs of his trident had broken off before Davos had been bom, yet somehow he still managed to impress. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory was almost as broken up as her mistress. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feigning a calm he did not feel, he groped in the pouch around his neck and took out the two halves of his broken wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The straps on her shoes were broken and flapped when she walked. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The silver snow on the Christmas tree had been tracked over the floors and two of the ornaments were broken. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She wiped her eyes and said in barely a whisper, “I feel like a broken drum—hollow, crushed, unable to make a sound.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if your motorcycle is broken,” he informed Ralph. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

His voice caught in his throat, and what came out was a broken croak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lucky for me, the silence is broken by three telltale honks from the driveway: Violet. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Dazed, feeling as though his ribs were broken, Harry tried to stand up; he could hear it growling as it skidded around for a new attack. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a traffic jam longer than a slithering python and I have to look where I’m going, because it’s easy to twist my foot on the broken cobblestone road. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All the broken windows have now been replaced, and half the aluminum tables already hold plants. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her mother stepped over the pieces of the broken little shepherdess. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then I hummed a few bars: Welcome into this place . .. welcome into this broken vessel. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The trouble is,” said Justin, “it’s Mr. Ages who puts it in Dragon’s dinner bowl, inside the farm kitchen. With his leg broken, he can’t move fast enough.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The General waited so long before he answered, Arm thought the connection had broken. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The careful plan of this assembly had broken down. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Already she saw her mistake: this was a private thing, something that should have been kept between them, and by including the Richardsons she had breached a barrier that should not have been broken. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his arm, the one that had been broken in the accident. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She saw that his shoes were battered and broken open at the toes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why his friend was broken in the back seat. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A metal edge split my broken lips and clear, warm water poured into my mouth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I haven’t broken said pledge despite the fact that Jupe’s only ever been into girls and it will likely never happen. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

"This kind of law must be broken. And besides, the Gestapo will never catch us," says Helmuth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Following a broken telephone line north, I have come upon some wonderful places,” continued the repairman. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, on October 16, 1941, a Moscow radio broadcast announced that German tanks had broken through the Red Army’s defenses and were about to storm the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Jesse didn’t die of a broken heart, Henry; he died of a broken brain.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her right arm was bandaged, and from the way she carried herself, I guessed she had some serious bruises along her left side, if not a few broken ribs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You are not safe. Oh, no! You can be found at the foot of the stairs with a broken neck. No one would cry!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing him by his jacket, Nettle pulled him down a scree of broken bricks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After the broken phone and Dad’s expensive plane ticket, I didn’t want to make things worse for Mom and Dad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If he sat down in one of our kitchen chairs, he would probably have broken it into pieces, he was that huge. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “Big Three” pact had only been broken twice—once when Zeus sired Thalia, once when Poseidon sired me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She is gone. Burned and devoured. Weeds grow through her broken skull.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There’s some broken electronics, wood scraps, an old coffee table covered in stains, and a bag of clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

With that face bashed in from the car crash, his disguise could be simple: a baggy uniform, a chipped front tooth, broken eyeglasses.” The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood and began digging her fingers into the dirt trickling through the broken shelves. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In a fury, using all his strength, Powell clubbed Frederick Seward with the barrel of the broken revolver. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me ten minutes to make it back to bed, and, by then, the incision on my stomach throbbed and I’d broken out in a drenching sweat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I may have broken some of his pretty white teeth.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because the “car” was guilty of transporting someone who had broken a drug law at some time, she could legally lose her only form of transportation, even though she herself committed no crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yet of the two of them, Minho had broken down and panicked, only to run off at the first sign of trouble. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He walked down the curious ranks, ugly as ever, self-conscious, ashamed, a veteran going to be broken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But light came in now through the broken roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

What had once been a fairly smooth plain was now broken and fractured. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a pastel portrait of my grandmother that was done in New York by a street artist, which makes her look like she had a broken jaw. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seems from the little I can grasp, I am not a dead one—just very broken. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dusk was deep when at length they set out, creeping over the westward rim of the dell, and fading like ghosts into the broken country on the borders of the road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Below his knee, his leg bones had been broken, and they had knitted back together at an odd angle. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The plaster casts of arms and legs glimmer whitely, like broken statues in a ruin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but she takes such a pride in it all. It’s so awful to think nothing in there has ever been broken before. It had to be me.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His skin is sugar-white and, under a lame beard, his face is broken out like a lava field. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Her whole body shuddered, but when she looked at me, I knew the spell had been broken. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They did not attack that night but we heard that they had broken through to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The surgeons couldn't detect the pathway with their probes past a broken rib. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At one point she must have broken open a pen and spun it around, because if you look closely, you can see small, dried drops of ink all over the walls and ceiling. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He held his hands out, palms turning upwards in a slow ballet of bone, marrow intact after all this time, under the crowded sky, against the broken ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She would have noticed right away that the message was broken into irregular groups. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I'm sure that no one is patrolling the street, I dart through the shadows toward the house and crawl to a broken board that leads under the porch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Watching her, feeling the exhilaration swelling in my chest, I couldn’t say I was all that aware of the broken glass and flickering monitor displays, either. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was a soft splashing noise to his left and he saw that the merpeople had broken the surface to listen too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I had thought the crowd would conceal me, but I should have broken away the moment we had passed through the slaughterhouse’s front doors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Englishman, half asleep, had broken Lazzaro’s right arm and knocked him unconscious. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this talk of exams and teachers getting tired and making mistakes and now the chocolate sale . . . and the two pieces of broken chalk abandoned on the desk, like white bones, dead men’s bones. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s burned a hole in my hand and broken my wrist, but I don’t flinch. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His memory was all swirling clouds and broken pieces of sound and sight and feeling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one was injured, but the resulting six broken windows were prominently featured in news stories about the march the next day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it felt as though his entrails were being ground to pulp between the two muscular hips; then he had broken through, sweating a little. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There is an additional cause in that poor old Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our seat, his neck being broken. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Several more medic trucks come and go, dropping off soldiers, some with broken limbs, some with gashes on their heads or lacerations on their legs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was broken, and brought to her for fixing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The egg had a tiny fracture, hardly noticeable, but its life was oozing out, just like all the other broken eggs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There is word that a great fever is broken out on other ships. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But every morning, I would find Martha, Rose, and June scratching in a pile of broken shells. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Plainly said, she was as much a prisoner in her broken body as Curzon was in his cell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lamp beside him, broken on the rocky floor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

If real, why is it that I can recall in all that island of greenness no fountain but one that was broken, corroded and dry? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like to die—the broken truncheon in his side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chair is missing a leg and a lamp is broken. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were walking on broken glass. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath the great grey cliffs a horse was dying noisily, struggling to rise on a broken leg and screaming when he fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The world has shattered, and all that’s left is this alternate universe full of broken people with nothing to hold on to. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. McCullom, who with her husband had managed to survive the fire by jumping out a window, sat before them, so slumped and broken that it hurt to look in her direction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Their offices were broken in to and their phones tapped. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Little Paul Lazzaro, with a broken arm, snored on one bed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many broken lives and secrets did that monster hold in its bowels, Magdalys wondered as they stepped up to it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The woman was emerging from the broken gate, with a shawl over her head and clutched under her chin. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was standing on his broken chair, waiting for a crowd to form, he would talk to me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had worse. No broken bones. No teeth knocked out. Just welts and bruises. What would the doctor do?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was why the Uncle could use the Gran’s weapons, why the Gran was unable to join the fight against the Cursed Toads until their necklaces were broken. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

This usually meant trying to stop fights between kids and sweeping up broken bottles. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A virus makes copies of itself inside a cell until eventually the cell gets pigged with virus and pops, and the viruses spill out of the broken cell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are broken windows, doors wide open, an empty car seat on a roof. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he was all afoot his scaled head, spike-crowned and triple-tongued, rose higher than the broken tower’s height, and his taloned forefeet rested on the rubble of the town below. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I hadn’t got a spare one in my pocket, but a broken nib was never accepted as an excuse for not finishing Prep. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suffered a cracked skull from being hit with an iron pipe, a broken leg, and many cuts and bruises. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fruitless Mountain is the broken heart of Jade Dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were scratched up, but no bones seemed to be broken. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The spraying would continue until his spirit was broken. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The words are all broken up because Poppy chewed on them.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido snapped the sign in half with his knee and tossed the broken hits into the crowd. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

By the time they had reached Constantinople Street there was a hostile silence in the taxi, which was only broken by the driver’s request for the fare. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like the victim of a famine—limbs like sticks, swollen knees and knobby elbows, rags for clothes, broken fingernails and toenails. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The courtyard was littered with clothing, broken crockery, shoes, books, and various personal items. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Among the personal effects that authorities will later find are a broken comb, tobacco, embroidered slippers, and one very telling scrap of paper. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had fallen to the ground, because of either the wind or vandals, and broken to pieces. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The doors faced out on a barren, floodlit terrace—black cinder, privet in concrete urns, a statue artfully broken in white pieces on the ground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A thought flashed through her mind: If she jumped now, she could make a grab for the end of the broken bridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But broken hearts wouldn’t help us survive any more than my temper. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And also all the eggs Twig and I had broken. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She worries that my broken leg is all her fault because I was asleep on her lap when the accident happened. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The bathroom was off the porch, and the latch to its door was broken, so that sometimes the wind would pull the door open, exposing the person sitting on the toilet. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He offered to repair a broken sash cord in one of the Tynmore windows in exchange for two voice lessons for Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result was a complete paralysis, only broken when Ricky said his name. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It took several months for Father’s broken bones to mend—and he was always to get aches in them during our cold, rainy winters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was rolling and uneven here; soft and muddy near the river, rising in a gentle slope toward the kingsroad, stony and broken beyond it, to the east. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While he held him the boy’s head fell back as a flower does when its stem is broken. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seemed to be an admission that she hadn’t broken the law. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Favonius set them down in the middle of the ruins, next to a broken column the size of a redwood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But now its limbs were broken, dangling at odd angles, punctuated by occasional wisps of brown leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a shirt frayed at the cuffs, without a jacket and wearing broken shoes, marched along reciting the Poet’s most revolutionary poems, his grief streaming down his face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Roy suspected, Beatrice had not broken a tooth falling down the steps. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubble was strewn all about it: great chunks of shattered masonry, burned beams, broken gargoyles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His subgravity walk teetered across the broken ground, kicking rocks to right and left under his weight in noiseless puffs of gray dust. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She’ll do everything the people in charge tell her to, even if that means she ends up broken and bloody. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And then from the kitchen, Mrs. Klauson, her voice like I’d never heard it, like it was broken, like it wasn’t even hers. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

If the pack disintegrated too soon, they would be unable to launch the boats and maneuver in the jumble of broken and grinding ice, and unable to find a floe large enough to camp on. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Dubs jaw was swollen, his nose was clearly broken, and his face was covered with scrapes and cuts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We moved closer to investigate and found three blue eggs, two of them whole and the third one crushed and leaking yellow liquid, like a broken yolk. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I cant understand how that window got broken,” Mrs Compson said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not supposed to use cell phones in school, but I’d broken so many rules this week, what was one more? Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was unsure which commandment my thoughts had broken—Honor thy father and mother, or not coveting thy neighbor’s parents, or even something more vague about being true to your own race and kind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Alongside it are gnarled trees, broken lampposts, old power lines. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His tooth was loose, and the nurse was pretty sure he'd broken his finger. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Rug pulled out from the coffee table, vases upended in a puddle of water, broken plate slivers and lemon cake scattered everywhere. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had this one for almost a year. A few of them are broken near the filters, but I think this pack could easily get me to my eighteenth birthday.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

If there’s trouble the books might be lost, things will get broken . The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you done something bad today on account of the terrible heat? Have you broken the rules? Please tell us you have.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now I could see the worn spots in the hall rugs, the broken piece of molding along the ceiling, the burned-out bulb in the light fixture. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most practical people would have cut the cord right there, would have broken away from Bodega like a rancher shoots a horse with a broken leg. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the sight of my fingers’ disjointed reflections against the glass startles me—reminds me of Day’s bloody hands, of Metias’s broken body. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Both her hands are wrapped in thick bandages—she must've cut herself on broken bottles or empty tins while cleaning out the trash cans around Union Station today. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The outdoor plaza was covered with twisted metal and shattered glass and broken furniture. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had even helped her during her first breakup, at the end of summer the year before, and it felt like they’d cemented a mutual bond that couldn’t be broken by anything. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I glance at our small kitchen table, where a mug has been knocked to the ground, tea spilled on the chair and floor amid the broken shards. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I pointed out how the pile of leaves she had walked through were obviously disturbed, and how the branches of the banerbyre were broken and torn where she’d struggled through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been in the hospital unless you count the time I went to the emergency room after I cut my ankle on some broken glass. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It looks something like that one,” he would say, "only it has a few more broken windows, and the yard is maybe a little smaller.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, imagine the smell of flowers but sweeter, and with broken glass in it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Harry felt a corrosive hatred toward Ron: Something had broken between them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,” Dad said, “you’ll still have your stars.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The autopsy report claimed that the channel of pus formed as a result of infection caused by the tiny splintered bones broken off by the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All night they rode, feeling their way up the twisting pass and through the stretches of broken ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The broken pressure-ridges take queer shapes, overturned towers, legless giants, catapults. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A rash had broken out on your back, making your skin as rough as sandpaper, and you moaned every now and then. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The tubes had cracked and broken during shipment, and raw, rotten blood had run around inside the box. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by the looks of it, countless others who’d been infected had joined him—there were hundreds scaling the broken wall. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts were broken into by a wave of singing that rolled over the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he about to see the mysterious broken object it was so important to mend? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Lying broken on the hot church floor, dark blood spilling from his skull like a secret. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mynah lifted on a rise of warm air as it coasted over the garden wall, over the snapping electric wires and broken glass and machine guns. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the good wizards from the castle—no one remembers his name—saw the Witch on her fearsome dragon as they flew across the broken land. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bus lay on its side like an old sick horse, its broken headlights staring out mournfully into the surrounding trees. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His tone made me look up — I had finally broken through his carefully composed mask. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She likes the stinging green scent released by the broken leaves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had any broken bones sticking out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She realized her arm was broken and that she must find help if she wanted to live. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even as I spoke, there was a great crash from the front of the house: the door being broken in. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eric and the boy I thought was named Ben gathered broken branches of driftwood from the drier piles against the forest edge, and soon had a teepee-shaped construction built atop the old cinders. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It dies completely when a man steps from a broken building. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The showers have been broken for as long as I’ve been at the school. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I looked back down toward the broken lute in my hands, but before my gaze wandered too far he caught my chin again, tilting my face up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That first day, the words were merely sounds in the air, broken like shards of glass, beautiful from a certain angle and jagged from another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Could the cannon shot announcing her death have come in the wee hours of the morning when even my good ear was too broken to pick it up? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Among the upscale houses, you see the occasional bungalow with cardboard stuffed in a broken window and a pickup truck parked in the side yard. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all that was broken when we reached 109th and Third, three blocks from our home. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As Toomer turned to leave the store, Red began following him, imitating his broken walk and his agonized, wavering speech. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama sighed and continued sweeping up the broken glass, dead flies, shattered frames, and Mo's flowers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The hangman kicked the chair out from under him, and the boy’s body jerked as his neck was broken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Under the stairs it was open and dry and dark—a few old paint cans piled on top of each other, a couple of broken window frames, something dead that once had fur. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not that it was necessarily a snap being an old-timer, either; one longtime employee had had his nose broken during a scuffle in the yard just the previous weekend. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He examined the fanlight: even if it were completely broken in, he was too large to crawl through to reach the holophone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And I might as well have broken it off. You know how it is,” I said as cool as I could muster. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She had just saved him, but she’d broken her grandmother’s cardinal rule: Don’t stand out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was too dazed to worry about what Celia would say when she saw the broken window. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the horses are scratched and weathered, their tails broken off or their saddles chipped. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After trying for nearly half a day, I realized that three broken strings were too many. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Joseph Bell which was broken has been recast into two smaller bells. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it—waterstained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Lolo has a broken expression on his face. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Phonograph records, some broken, some only nicked, were strewn about. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell them Booth had a broken leg; he cannot run away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She danced around the one-room house, shaking and shaking that snake, until the hay of the beds was scattered and the stone circle of the fire was ruined and the adder’s back was broken. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rounding the corner they saw before them a low cliff, some five fathoms high, with a broken and jagged top. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He shook it so hard he might have broken it, but then a voice in his head reminded him that it wasn’t worth going to jail for fifty cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They saved me one but I hesitated, thinking of how I’d broken the Sabbath. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wall was much too high to climb over, and even if I could get to the top, there was the thicket of barbed wire and broken glass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Crouching by the broken, low stone boundary wall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of it is dirty or stained or broken. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was broken when a large man, larger than Coach Warner, stood up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edging away from the wolf, she knelt mournfully beside the broken hutch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Twice Ralph called Ti Fifi on his cell phone to report that the ambulance had broken down—the engine tended to overheat when there wasn’t enough motor oil. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Wailing children, broken old people, bombing, and blood all came in sharp enough in black-and-white. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our rocks and pebbles, the sand and gravel you see: these were Ymir’s teeth, and the fragments of bones that were broken and crushed by Odin and Vili and Ve in their battle with Ymir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

With it, fear comes rushing into my mind, a river that’s broken a dam. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a moment’s silence, which was broken by Sirius growling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the bin, sitting on top of the trash, was a broken mop handle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That run had been truly stupid, an invitation to a broken neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He might well be a broken thing, but Theon still wore a dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a world that had once been in Hanako’s future for certain, before the war had broken everything in half. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the end of life, a fallen brother was honored by his fellow butchers with a last tribute: an elaborate funeral wreath in the shape of a broken cleaver. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kleist had broken his own arm to avoid recruitment into the people’s army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It kinda hurt my broken face to smile. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The family’s badly burned ’78 Camaro was discovered last Saturday on a north Long Island road with the roof ripped off and the front axle broken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, getting drunk had momentarily broken down the conscious barriers that kept the old Charlie Gordon hidden deep in my mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bottles were broken, a car was set on fire, and then the vice chancellor came out, diminutive, encased between security men, and spoke in pastel tones. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His right arm felt as if it had been broken from the scuffle that had happened moments before; he was bleeding from the mouth. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"This city is dead, Khaleesi. Nameless and godless we found it, the gates broken, only wind and flies moving through the streets." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was so beaten and broken and cold that this crawling through the wet sand in the whistling, sea-thundering dark was the hardest thing he had ever had to do. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was reason to worry, too, for just a few years ago, the demons had broken their own laws and turned away over twenty thousand of their former guests who had expected to be readmitted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in his shop he sharpened plows and mended harrows and welded broken axles and shod horses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I traveled, I brought backup outfits, anticipating shifts in weather and schedule, not to mention nightmare scenarios involving spilled wine or broken zippers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I remained more than an hour leaning over him, looking at him, etching his bloody, broken face into my mind. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked his broken face, however hideous it was, and Arthur had asked her to be kind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked up the dirt road past a few leafless poplars along a row of broken mud walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The secretary wears a splint on his broken jaw, which, luckily, deflects the knife away from the jugular vein, but it does little to protect the rest of his skull. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Menelaus drew his sword, his only weapon now, but as he did so it fell from his hand broken. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On recognising him, the fang of the snake Jealousy was instantly broken; because at the same moment my love for Céline sank under an extinguisher. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had just flushed and washed my hands while performing the strange task of looking at my bruised and broken face, but only in glimpses. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Episodes from their various points of view came weekly in the mail, until the uncles were executed kneeling on broken glass by people who had still other plans for the land. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phil ordered when he saw fuel dripping from the broken right wing.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was a boxy structure with a row of large windows fanged with broken glass and a single cupola that probably contained a bell. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The truth was, the morning after Thanksgiving, I had asked Shawn to tell me if it was broken. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was no sound but our breaths bubbling up and obscure thuds from deep inside the ship, pieces of the broken hull knocking in the current. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A child peers down from a broken window. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ohl you might get some of the glass in your feet, ma’am,” insisted the young woman, picking up bits of the broken vase that were scattered upon the carpet. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his broken wing and lifetime of eating road- kill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bouts of fighting will last the whole day, broken up by bardic performances, a few feats of clever magic, displays of archery, and other skills. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I followed the épée group into the adjacent cafeteria, where we were broken down into smaller groups of ten or so based on our ability. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In this migrant dormitory, he has washed his mouth with urine, a home remedy for his still aching, broken teeth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The pain was far worse than anything he’d felt before—it made the broken thumb feel like a mosquito bite in comparison. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a century of war, Volantis found herself broken, bankrupt, and depopulated. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I understand that if Thresh wins, he'll have to go back and face a district that has already broken all the rules to thank me, and he is breaking the rules to thank me, too. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The gaoler was a furtive little man with broken veins in his nose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he stood on a broken chair or a cinder block while he orated. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The broken, dirty arbors served as a refuge for wild animals and a garbage dump for the neighbors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like broken glass was working its way through his stomach, into his intestines. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “you may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on you.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The bald man hobbled in on his broken leg. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He slowly picked up the broken sign and took it back to his bike. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The countryside is scattered with Roman remains from centuries past—blocks of carved stone and broken columns and foundations—overgrown with vines and brambles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran did so; as he touched the ends of the silver chain together they knit and mended as if they had never been broken. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry unlaced his shoe and pulled the broken string to even lengths so he could tie it in a bow again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mask scoops up a shard of glass from one of the broken jars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The crack of a broken bone shot through the gymnasium. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squinted at the East River; the crescent moon above danced its broken light across the black ripples. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The smell drifted up the slope with the breeze; heaps and pools of green-black-brown-white dung lay among the broken beams, the scattered thatch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They thought it would help to mend her broken heart if she were made godmother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I will be fine. Fortunately, we do not shoot centaurs with broken ... Ow! ... broken legs.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe it. No flesh burns, no broken bones from her fall—nothing. A few blackened feathers. She should be fried black.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The freak bit of summer that had broken in during February was gone now, and the weather had turned chilly again. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His was a nest of broken crates he had cobbled together to keep the weather off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With Mom and Dad’s farewells still resounding in our ears, Alice took out her Swiss Army knife, with all the gadgets on it—from screwdriver to scissors—and clipped a broken nail. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had so many broken bones that they could not be counted, but he was alive and his eyes were open. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken galleys were ripping apart, the bridge breaking apart. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A mournful hush fell over the barn, broken only by the long, low moans of a saddle pony who missed his absent stable companion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only had they broken her fall, but they had prevented her from rolling directly into the creek and possibly drowning. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wade through a litter of discarded wrappings, broken glass, and bones to where I know I will find Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Any barriers there might have been between the passengers had now quite broken down. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band obliged with musical chairs, but after two of the dining room chairs were broken, they left off playing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was a chalkboard on the wall right behind the front gate, and one morning it read, “CO Diaz had arm broken by a con 8/19/97 and is awaiting surgery.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says it doesn’t seem right all broken up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a moment passed that they did not think of her poor parents and the dishonor of a promise broken. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the silence between us has just about broken my ears, I turn around to look at her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That feeling—it tied her to them, to her mother, her father, her grandmother, with strong threads too ancient and precious to be broken. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This chair is an antique. That means it’s supposed to be broken.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One evening when we got home after work, we discovered that someone had broken in our house and stolen our cash. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The very last passage she wrote in the bible was: A broken heart is an open heart. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have bothered you except that there’ve been some windows broken around here. We think it’s kids. I’m the security guard. I’ve got to be careful.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Aragorn saw that he was pierced with many black-feathered arrows; his sword was still in his hand, but it was broken near the hilt; his horn cloven in two was at his side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When the Apache women found their broken bodies on the rocks below, they cried huge, desperate tears, which turned to stone when they touched the earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was pushing against the gray horizon hills, sending yellow light across the clouds, and the yellow river sand was speckled with the broken shadows of tamaric and river willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother began digging delicately around the area, first with her stick, to clear the broken bottles, then with her gnarled hands to reach the object. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor said it was pneumonia that took her, but Aunt Seah claimed it was a broken heart. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I lean my whole weight on her to get up the stairs, like some part of me is broken, which I guess it is. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

This record is unlikely to be broken even by our own species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returns a minute later with a gaunt, hollow man with big circles under his eyes and a nose that looks like it’s been broken in about three places. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But what do you think he’s broken out to do?” said Madam Rosmerta. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Soon the road behind him was dotted with spectators following him to the useless gates holding nothing from a broken system, torn down by the words of a dreaming old lady. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sure that it meant that his feelings were broken somehow, the way his ability to recognize faces was broken. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His voice is high and meepy, and it breaks my heart for an adult to sound that way, so broken, so desperate. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Complications from that broken hip,” he said matter-of-factly as he held a partially carved wooden duck and a carving tool in his hands. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I got to my building, where I lived with my moms, walked in through the broken door and took the steps, because our elevator was jacked up too—the city didn’t never fix nothing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

‘The Lord went away from the room where Faramir lay; and it was only when he returned that I first thought he was changed, old and broken.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It looked like his ribs were broken when he was pinned against the rails. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not what it used to be. It is broken down with bullet holes everywhere, but we will go there,” he answers and continues peddling. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a patty-pan, or at least a broken cup or a saucer, for every little girl and boy. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu knew the air conditioner had not broken yesterday, it had been broken for much longer, perhaps it had always been broken; still she nodded and said that perhaps it had packed up from overuse. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In December, a Honduran arrived with both legs and ankles broken. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Lily had finally come home late that night of the recital, I’d broken the news to her that our mother had been there and had seen her and Nathan. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As Roz sat in the airship, broken and alone and speeding toward a mysterious future, she looked back at her miraculous past. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We found the little girl beneath a slab of broken ceiling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The ground crew was aghast at the idea of a girl flying the broken Lysander. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I feel broken into so many pieces, I can’t figure out how to put myself back together. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I could tell that one of his wings was broken. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The sun had finally broken through the clouds, but after that it was all downhill. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if Isannah’s words had broken down the last strength in him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the corner of Oliver Street, she dodged a group of washers trudging along with bags of laundry, and some movers carrying away a broken table. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If you do not stop molesting me, I shall christen the prow of your broken Plymouth with the bottle of wine in the oven,” Ignatius snorted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baby Lee and his friend got in a argument, and his friend took the broken neck off of a beer bottle, and stabbed him in his leg. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spider tumbled from the broken web, hung by a single strand a few inches above the floor, then swiftly climbed the strand, scrambled across the top front rail of the porch, and disappeared. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He kicks the broken chair aside and sits down on one of the three remaining good ones. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they hung, three live men and one dead one, as the Lord of Light’s devout stacked split logs and broken branches under their feet, then doused the piles with lamp oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A trail of broken wayns and frozen corpses stretched back behind them, buried beneath the blowing snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It exploded, showering me with broken bits of chain and fluff. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Stores, shopping centers, garages, furniture outlets, restaurants, quick-food stands: the cement procession marched on, broken only by traffic lights dangling from heavy wires over the roadway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kehaar went on pecking at the broken pieces of stale bread. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stiff, dry, unrelenting wind blew up the fifty-mile length of the coulee, carrying the sweet scent of sage and the harsh, mineral smell of broken rock. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Partway up the trunk, a branch had broken off, and the wound was leaking golden resin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Helen’s door swung back and forth like a broken wing; Helen clung to the dashboard. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors had given her pills so she could continue to function, even though her father was broken and her mother was dead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grimaced and held up his broken arm, tears leaking from the corners of his eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, Brian pulled the kid over ’cause he had a broken taillight and was speeding.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Poor old man, that rope of his broken by who knows what and him lost in the dark and frightened to death because of it. It’s too much. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were a large number of broken blood vessels in the whites of the deceased’s eyes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a sinking feeling, I remembered what an expert shot he was, how he’d broken the rows of mason jars one by one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When we are together in company—Slant, Pomp, Olakunde, my own self, even unspeaking Will—we no longer seem broken, as we did; we no longer seem children, but comrades. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The left front leg was hanging at a broken angle, and none of the white people at Prewitt wanted to bother with the bull because the meat would be tough. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His broken leg notwithstanding, these three days in Virginia, with its pro-Confederate citizens and custom of hospitality, have made him think that escape is a possibility. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lori gave me a disgusted look, as if she thought it was my fault that the car had broken down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I warned you, child,” she said finally, in a sort of broken voice, “that your white friends were going to get you into trouble. Why wouldn’t you listen?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their loop had been raided, they explained in their strange and broken way, but they’d managed to escape into the catacombs and hide among the bones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her glasses had fallen off her face and lay broken on the floor of the van. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Eventually she came to the numbers that indicated the hexagram she was being given, the group of six broken or unbroken lines, and then she looked up the meaning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he just hadn’t broken with virus yet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that he still gave me a black eye and several broken ribs before I managed to kick him squarely between the legs and get free. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think it made her feel better to think of it like something broken that could be fixed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The loop at the end had a single broken reed still attached. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The glare. I feel like someone rubbed broken glass into my eyes. I swear, if I knew it would stop the shimmering, I would blind myself.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the peach had broken out of the garden and was over the edge of the hill, rolling and bouncing down the steep slope at a terrific pace. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure he’d broken at least a leg, maybe his neck. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A jump from this height to the tarmac might have broken a bone or twisted an ankle, but the healing nanites in his blood would quickly release opiates and deaden the pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing at what he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His jaw is misshapen on the left, as if it was badly broken and then healed improperly. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

My resolve is almost immediately broken at the first table, which has twenty or so soups, when I encounter a creamy pumpkin brew sprinkled with slivered nuts and tiny black seeds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Billy Martin was a broken person,” Webb says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I just want you to remember this. I can break you like you’ve never been broken. Remember that. Remember when you’re walking across campus at night. I’m coming for you.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Abnegation and Dauntless are both broken, their members scattered. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Guests were sprinting in all directions; many were Disapparating; the protective enchantments around the Burrow had broken. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

One had taken Needle, while another had broken her wooden stick sword over his knee. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’d bet she could fall off a cliff and then, bleeding and broken, still laugh about it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strode a few paces forward, scanning every broken twig and blade of grass. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She’s trying to find a way to gently break my already broken heart. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The country’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, had broken international treaties and built up his military force. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

With a stick I measured the water in the hole where my feet had broken through the ice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey!” she yelled as she squeezed sideways through a narrow gap in the broken chemistry tables and reached the desks. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Like this whole stupid paradise, this very good school, is nothing but a fancy promise, a broken one, a big lie. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my child, and I can’t have his spirit broken by harshness.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found a broken stone big enough to sit on, and lowered herself shakily onto it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the phone with Mr. Dill, I thought about all of his struggles and all the terrible things he'd gone through and how his disabilities had broken him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I nudge my foot against Willem's, and he easily slips the chain back into place, sighing like he's sorry his broken bicycle held us up for so long. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath broken walls of dried mud, riders galloped back and forth, swinging their long whips as they herded the survivors from the smoking rubble. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about how regret begets regret begets regret, and about the cycle I’ve just broken. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the silence was broken, and they heard below them cries and the ringing of swords: such sounds as had not been heard in the hallowed places since the building of the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

While they were wonderfully gentle and easy-minded, they had rules, and when those rules were broken, sometimes their retaliation was complete and devastating. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My tongue felt the ragged edge of a broken tooth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottle had broken and glass had torn through the bag and cut his hand. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Colin had never understood this before, but now thousands of strings were fluttering over and around and past him, and they were both tiny broken beams of light and endless, undulating waves. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A lamppost had been broken in half like a pretzel stick. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the podium, a plume of gray smoke rose out of the side of the broken, useless Stormbreaker. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The injury to Booth’s leg had caused the tissue to swell up and create a seal that could not be broken without inflicting agony upon the patient and possibly worsening the injury. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While most of the doves are only dazed from the fall, one clearly has a broken wing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had broken into a nervous sweat, and he wiped his forehead on his sleeve. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The broken shards still lay on the ground, and the thought of him coming back to terrorize me sent a shiver down my back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Oh, and a brain full of pistol and broken truck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A jumble of broken logs were wedged between the rocks of the rapids, and a moment later Thorn was on top of them. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His broken ribs and vertebrae would likely heal without surgery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By Kristina’s twelfth birthday on April 16, 2005, pale green buds had broken out in the oaks in front of the Links’ house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He saw himself refusing Mack’s request and he saw the broken glass from the windows. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

You blinked sulkily in the sunshine that had briefly broken through the clouds. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You also suffered seven broken ribs. One of them caused a pneumothorax.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

According to the Millennium Challenge scenario, a rogue military commander had broken away from his government somewhere in the Persian Gulf and was threatening to engulf the entire region in war. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland took off his spectacles and rebound a wire around a broken hinge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only place Cole felt no bites was on his broken right arm. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Goldfish flopping all around my feet, amidst the shards of broken glass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Faint voices broken by static came through. “.. . final score: New York Giants, twenty-four. Detroit Lions, seventeen . “Lions suck,” Jennifer said, shaking her head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were looking down a broken, rugged slope toward a cluster of wooden buildings beside a wide stretch of snow as flat as could be, which Lyra took to be the frozen lake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She peeked at some of the new wishes hanging from my boughs and took a photo of the broken eggshells on my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The CIA had broken through the wall of secrecy around the Soviet Union at last. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I must have gone to that window about a dozen times that morning and watched the wounded kitten make a broken progress across the lawn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He drew out his sword, and they saw that the blade was indeed broken a foot below the hilt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I revived you when your neck was broken, and I am in the midst of reviving you now. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The father opened his arms wide and welcomed them in his broken English: "This is your home, and never you should forget it." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Empty glasses, bottles, and plates lay scattered about, several of them cracked or broken. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He tosses the packet onto the coffee table, where it falls next to a few playing cards, a rolled dollar bill, and one jagged slab of a broken mirror. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever broken a bone or bumped your head? Do you know what a CT scan is?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The vomiting attack appears to have broken some blood vessels in his nose—he gets a nose bleed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had broken a school record without a day of practice? A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drive through the tribal lands of the Khyber Pass, winding between cliffs of shale and limestone, was just as I remembered it—Baba and I had driven through the broken terrain back in 1974. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Smith kept an absolutely straight face: “All four of his legs are broken.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, the farms didn’t look so broken and worn out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a graphic novel about two brothers, one who falls madly in love with a girl only to have his heart horribly broken. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The New York Times had broken the story. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of the front door shutting with a loud bang. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

As he raised his head, Pinmei glimpsed his haunted eyes and saw how broken he was by worry and regret. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We went on, avoiding the broken bottles as now the spilling kerosene splashed into the pale spilt milk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edwin tapped Cole’s shoulder with the broken stick. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Guth suggested that the universe might behave in a similar way: the temperature might drop below the critical value without the symmetry between the forces being broken. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One seemed asleep; the other, with crossed legs and arms behind his head, leaned back against a broken rock and sent from his mouth long wisps and little rings of thin blue smoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They gaped redly against the innkeeper’s fair skin, as if he had been slashed with a barber’s razor or a piece of broken glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His body now broken as if it were no more than a bag of bones. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed utterly unconcerned as he turned back to Chronicler, still holding the tip of the broken sword in his bleeding hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They waved, they shouted bits of broken English, and they cheered. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And I think Ob’s going to die, truly die, if I can’t figure a way to mend his sorry broken heart. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know how to care for them. In the night I spat something strange and felt something in my chest was broken.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped over the broken pieces of door into the chill, damp dark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The feudal convention of battle was broken for good, on the Continent as well as in England. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually there would be what is called a phase transition and the symmetry between the forces would be broken: the strong force would become different from the weak and electromagnetic forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us do not speak loudly in our barracks, perhaps because we are sensible that these are men, and we are boys; these others are whole, when we know ourselves broken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Just then, twenty, thirty gulls rose from somewhere on the island coast and turned to face the sea breeze, screeching like broken promises. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We’re leading the cheers in our dugout, and all the other Renegades are lined up next to Malik, and just like we have been all game, we’ve broken out our rally caps. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Ron crawled to the four-poster and collapsed onto it, panting, his white face now tinged with green, both hands clutching his broken leg. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Chandresh cannot decipher any of it, cannot even tell if the marks are broken into words or simply continuous strings of motifs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, on the day I visited, the dishwasher displayed a sign that said: “Please don’t open. I am broken and I smell bad.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One time I saw an old jet-black woman, bent like an ostrich with its head in the sand, trying to cultivate the bone-dry soil with a broken hoe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pitch and roll of their voices broken up by laughter said they’d been drinking. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She said she thought something was broken inside in the place where he’d kicked her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never moving his broken body, he reached out all the same, and for an instant he was seeing double. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was like an old, broken version of Dr. Cable’s, a rusty razor blade drawn across her nerves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Its tunnels had broken through to our mine the previous year. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of her bruised face, her broken body. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You track the other person by observing broken sticks or footprints or even clues that a person sets out, like an acorn under a pine tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Blanca, I didn’t want to think too much about her, for I might have broken down and started crying in public, embarrassing the hell out of myself. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

With a stick broken from a nearby willow she searched through the reedy water, poking around and around the spot where the bag had gone down, working in bigger and bigger circles. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xhalal’s extended family was broken up, sent to a variety of Western countries that had offered to accept refugees from Kosovo. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I saw two men grabbing my hands and pulling me through a broken window. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Spilled cargo, broken furniture, plastic lawn chairs, a basketball. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship itself was a mess of snapped rigging and broken spars. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But that ladder was not broken at suppertime when I jumped down from the tree fort. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I clasped my mirror to my chest so it wouldn’t get lost or broken. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m up to my waist in the creek, slabs of broken ice upended around me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He chased us, yelling and cursing in broken Spanish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph heard Albert yell, “Stop! No!” from the dining room, and he thought someone had broken into the house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her crown is bent and broken and her sash is too faded to read. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Like always blaming broken things on little Junsoo, when most of the time it was her own carelessness. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

All around him, trees shot out hardwood limbs that he could tape to the broken pieces as a splint. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The blue knight let his broken shield drop to the ground to free his left arm, and then the Knight of Flowers was on him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We picked up the knocked down chairs and table, cleaned the glass from the broken lanterns, and put the books back on the shelf. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every other building is in ruins, spilling rubble and broken bricks onto the streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He, Harry, had broken wizard law just like Sirius Black. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he went quickly from room to room, stepping around the broken glass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s better this way. I don’t want you to have a broken heart.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

While the British colonel set Lazzaro’s broken arm and mixed plaster for the cast, the German major translated out loud passages from Howard W. Campbell, Jr.’s monograph. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times they'd run an obstacle course, or go bungee jumping off a table, tied to broken rubber bands. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A booming explosion of ripping wood and broken glass thundered from somewhere upstairs, shaking the whole house. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And yeah, she’ll wind up with three broken ribs, a fractured femur and a strained neck, but the ambulance drivers won’t ever mention that. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

There is the problem of my portfolio being full of broken bowls and blobs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You have some pretty deep bruises. But nothing broken. That lip is going to hurt for a while, but it’s already stopped bleeding.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, I was a boy named Hugo Cabret, and I desperately believed that a broken automaton would save my life. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

‘I had broken my nib, sir, and I was asking Dobson if he could lend me another. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all I have are broken visions and this new nightmare. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had broken in and assaulted Dr. Kent. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was an uncomfortable silence, broken only by shuffling and whispering. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used it to push the broken ceramic of the milk bottles into a mound by the wall, and then she picked up the tools and returned them to their spots. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Having broken the main taboo, why should I hesitate over another one, something minor? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the loggerhead swam off, we jumped in and goofed around until Thom cut his ankle on a broken beer bottle that was buried in the sand. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She would knock down both the two men so they would have shiners and broken noses and would be passed out on the hall floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“This is what you do all the time. Bird with the broken wing syndrome. Of all the girls out there, you have to fall in love with this one?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was bleeding badly, his skin pierced with splinters and broken glass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, there was a concrete slab with a hole in it and a plastic toilet seat on top; there had been a lid at some point, but it had broken and disappeared long ago. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We could play with some old dolls and broken toys, although we mostly made up our own games and caught dragonflies. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When he went home in the evenings, the caretaker locked the more valuable items, such as used clothing, car parts, and broken lamps, in a makeshift shed. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Nile can flood without us. Meet me at daybreak beside the broken tree. It is safe enough now.’ The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They continued up the winding steps, past empty windows and broken balconies. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I can see chips and missing flakes in the gold edging where the circle has been broken. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Environmental Tipping Points are things that we can change: we can fix broken windows and clean up graffiti and change the signals that invite crime in the first place. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The throwing arm had been taken off for repairs and then forgotten; it lay there like a broken toy, half-embedded in the ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn, the same voice came out, a crippled animal running on broken legs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A broken razor flinging them backward over his shoulder the same motion complete the jerked skein of blood backward not looping. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire in the center of the grove was a small sad thing, ashes and embers and a few broken branches burning slow and smoky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then we could hear the hissing of gas from the broken pipes, like dozens of angry snakes, and people, trapped inside the mounds, began calling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elias is here, before me, warm and beautiful and broken. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He glanced at his wrists, red and scabbing; his back was stiff; his legs were sore; his fingers were swollen, but not broken. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She walks over to my domain, to the spot in the corner where the glass is broken. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The taut blue horizon encircled them, broken only by the mountain-top. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His cheeks and nose were speckled with broken blood vessels. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When they were broken in, she would be able to walk anywhere in such shoes—even home. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He publicly charged that Bliss had broken the American Medical Association's ethical code, which gave a patient's regular doctor the right to see him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He fled with the broken Army to Athens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The three of us will try to raise it. With a broken arm even a Fflam wouldn’t be much help.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The light on the next lamppost was out, too, the glass globe broken. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Thunder sank his teeth into a piece of broken root and pulled it out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I guess he thought we were already broken up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I drove into a little canyon out of the wind and parked by a mound of broken bottles—whisky and gin bottles, thousands of them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says that crime is contagious — just as a fashion trend is contagious — that it can start with a broken window and spread to an entire community. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s something broken in me from watching my parents being murdered. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the lid is broken, and we must all take care in the dark.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Bran did want to be married to a tree ... but who else would wed a broken boy like him? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was Dorian who was the fool—Dorian who would have his heart broken, if he did actually love her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"This betrayal would have broken his heart. The gods are kind, that he did not live to see it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ernie got a hundred bucks from Ma and Dad for his birthday, so at least he'll be able to replace his broken ones with better ones. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth, and then before us, broken glass glittered in the blare of the sun like the road was wearing jewelry, and that spot must be the spot. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two weeks before Enrique’s March beating, a Salvadoran was found crumpled and unconscious and by the tracks, his left arm broken. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And I thought how convenient it would be now I didn't have to announce to everybody at college I had broken off with Buddy and start the boring business of blind dates all over again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The ritual enacted on Saturday nights between Jean Louise and her father was too old to be broken. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There it was, a big thorn that had broken off right in the middle of her heel. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke sat up, checking his arms to make sure she hadn’t broken anything. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some future installment, a flashback, I shall perhaps recount that pilgrimage through the swamps, a journey into the desert from which I returned broken physically, mentally, and spiritually. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wall had bits of broken glass set into the concrete on the top, so no one could climb over without shredding their palms. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So her sleep was broken and shallow, on the floor of the shack with all the other sleepers, and her death sat watchfully beside her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without a word, they began to pick their way through, the hush broken only by the faraway bells of the Elderclock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The whole house hung like broken dishes just before they hit the floor. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Uncle had broken from the crowd and caught up with the Witchlings, ushering them to the safety of the Gran’s home. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

How can his outside look so normal and his inside be so broken? Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last piece of the broken pottery, and when Koffi placed it in her mind, fresh pain stabbed at her side as the rest of the memory came to her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She snorted and shoved off, thrusting the buggy across broken stones and ice. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It's not hard to tell. I’ve seen a hundred slaves come and go. Resistance fighters are always different. Never broken. At least not when they first arrive. They have...hope.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As Strider raised it they saw that near the end its edge was notched and the point was broken off. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then came a chorus of rifle fire, screams, and broken glass, and a mad scramble overtook the meeting hall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“But you can’t hurry a broken bone. If I were to let you stand up now, you’d crumple to the ground.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And if only she knew: the whole student body, led by James Madison, who can’t even tell the difference between a firecracker and a stink bomb but has somehow deduced that I’m broken. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked the broken chair into a corner. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was riding in fine form, everything clicking, the broken bones mended, his timing right. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cabin 16, back at Camp Half-Blood—the symbol above their door was a broken wheel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he found a pile of new towels and carried them through to the broken window, where he leaned out and mopped the inside of the canoe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My radio went dead and I thought it was broken, but it was only that the high ridges cut off the radio waves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai remembered that Father had broken up the Filed Teeth gang, but what happened to old gang members? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not a book in sight, not a single book, not on the shelves or beneath the broken glass of the display cases. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He sees Jutta’s crestfallen face, bent over the pieces of their broken radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he stood up the men crowded near and the spell was broken. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe all the ciphers were broken. This is going to be way harder than I thought. I don’t want to shave off Steve.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the song had only seemed whole to me As I finished removing the broken string I gave it an idle look and all my thoughts fell to a jumble at my feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the class erupted in applause that the sound barrier was broken. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The broken glass that had sliced the artery in Mrs. Barnes’s neck showed how little was safe now. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dadi only talked like that, all formal and stuff, when she was cooking up some cockamamie plan that would usually end up with something valuable broken. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His face was puffy and his skin rough and coarse-looking, broken out in some kind of a rash. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I see my reflection everywhere, warped by the curve of the walls, broken by patches of rust and grime. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Death had moved away from 8800 American Street and traveled to the many broken parts of the city. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I drove home broken and brokenhearted about Jimmy Dill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If all Allied ships were saved, the Nazis would grow suspicious and guess that someone had broken their codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With his finger, Bliss detected a broken rib but no bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is a facsimile of life, for broken people. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He thought he might have broken his toe; as he clutched it and hopped on one foot, the Invisibility Cloak slipped off him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But Memory Charms can be broken by a powerful wizard, as I proved when I questioned her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then a tile broke, and the boy standing on it slipped and fell, but the one beside him picked up the broken piece and hurled it at Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My heart is broken," Tiny says, as if the thing has never happened before to him, as if it has never happened before to anyone. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It isn’t as clean as it was when it was the Erudite compound; now it is ravaged by war, bullet holes in the walls and the broken glass of shattered lightbulbs everywhere. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The heavy padding of Watney's suit saved him from many broken bones. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking this when behind us crept a rumbling against concrete, like a barrel rolling, the rolling broken by the cracks in the sidewalk. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had fought on the right and been broken, just as he had been broken at Chancellorsville. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see her grow healthy again. To cure her would have atoned for a broken promise in my past. I let down my dear Elnora, who was like a mother to me.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Auntie Lin explains how mad she got at a store clerk who refused to let her return a skirt with a broken zipper. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But deep inside he couldn’t bring himself to disagree—as odd as it seemed after what he’d accomplished, he had broken a major rule. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

That was what had finally broken through her blindness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Windows were broken, and outside the building an effigy of President Eisenhower was burned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had broken through the clouds, and all of a sudden the water was glistening and shining as if someone had poured paint into it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But slowly, things returned to status quo: Lindsey had a boyfriend, and Colin had a broken heart and a Theorem to finish. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I looked at the watch; he had broken A. Hopkins Parker’s record by .7 second. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I inspected the poles, and none of them had broken. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the traps, buoys and all, washed ashore in a broken tangle. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The hurt in her voice was as sharp as broken glass. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So you will go back now and have that broken bone set. But first I will bind it for you and fix you something better than that branch to walk with.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, in the reflection of the now broken mirror, they saw the Uncle’s face spread into a wide, disconcerting smile before he grabbed her shoulder. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Below, ruins stretched out for maybe a quarter of a mile: limestone blocks, a few broken walls and some tiled holes in the ground like wells. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The broken gutter edge loomed up, surprisingly bringing with it a desperate chance. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lyra wept brokenly and touched his face with trembling hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once, in a battle with a gang of white boys, I was struck behind the ear with a piece of broken bottle; the cut was deep and bled profusely. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week ago, right at the beginning of the heat wave, the air conditioner in his mother’s attic office had broken. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

All the broken cookies and fortunes had disappeared except for one crumpled slip of paper. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He thinks of the old broken miners he’d see in Zollverein, sitting in chairs or on crates, not moving for hours, waiting to die. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He pointed his Transvice at the broken window, where a man’s arm had snaked through the narrow gap and was groping along the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The sight of bodies strewn about like broken dolls. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Duct tape might seal a hairline crack, but it can't hold an atmosphere of pressure against the size of my broken faceplate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fifth, with the broken fingers, spat and pulled free a dagger with his left hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pushed against one wall were various bits of furniture heaved out over the past year or so—broken tables, old fridges, that kind of thing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken wood beneath held that side a foot or two off the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Before the wall’s foot the dead and broken were piled like shingle in a storm; ever higher rose the hideous mounds, and still the enemy came on. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the carriage house there was what is called “signs of a struggle”—in this case a broken box, a shattered carriage lamp, scraped marks in the dust, and straw on the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wooden boards with lopsided print leaned on broken chairs in front of the sheds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seaweed and driftwood and broken robot parts were scattered about the shore. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I open the box, I see broken shards of my Christmas ornament, along with burned scraps of what must be my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I think of the way she spat out the explanation of the tattoo of broken glass on her back like it was poison. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even though Count Olaf was of course the cause of all this misery, Violet felt as if she had broken her promise to her parents, and vowed to make it right. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’ve prayed to have Mama back in my life every night, only to have my heart broken every Halloween, every Christmas, every motherless birthday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Is that piece of broken glass sufficiently sharp and strong to be useful as a knife? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our old radio was broken, so I hadn’t heard his latest broadcasts, but I heard them at friends’ and relatives’ houses, and my friends at school repeated his nightly sermons almost word for word. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t really tell, but it seemed like maybe the man came to wish her Happy Valentine’s Day, but they were already broken up and she had a date with someone else. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She gets up and sweeps the broken halves of the pencil off the table, into her left palm. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I stood in a gooey room full of broken glass, and I didn’t care. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And next day had seen the effigies they had hung, the Tory fences they had torn down or windows broken, and heard that Royal Commissioner So-and-So had been frightened out of Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather was picking through the broken chairs in the front room, trying to salvage something to sit on. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Doreah, see to her hurts. You do not have a rider's look, perhaps she will not fear you. The rest, with me."«She urged the silver through the broken wooden gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Off to the side is the black vase, the smooth cylinder broken in half, the freesias strewn in a puddle of water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half-eaten plates of food, shattered liquor bottles, and pieces of broken furniture from a drunken rampage scatter his quarters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My dad’s nose was broken and he had cuts on his hands and arms. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Groleo had been a most unhappy man since they had broken up his ship to build the siege engines that won Meereen for i her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Not like this you’re not. You cannot bear weight on that broken foot until the bone heals—six weeks at least. Maybe you try again then.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Joseph leaned over to pick up one of the broken plates, his uncle said sharply, “Joseph, stop!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He grunted and I could see his stomach bouncing a little under the white sheet from him wanting to laugh but trying not to because of his broken ribs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

An old Chinese birdcage, broken down into a web of arched wires, had become an eagle, its brassy skeletal wings spread as if about to take flight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While I was painting my picture of the dining room, I realized that for several months, one of our digital frames had been broken and no one had noticed. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Arthur, don’t forget that if I never dated Hudson, then I couldn’t have broken up with him. Then I wouldn’t have gone to that post office. Then I wouldn’t have met you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I moved very close to them, getting into their space, and was told to get lost before I got my face broken. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You have a broken hip. It has to be pinned. After that you’ll need extensive physical therapy. It’s a long process, and you can’t ignore it just because it doesn’t fit in with your plans.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, broken only by an odd clicking noise. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The word had broken from his mouth like a curse, leaving an aftertaste of tears. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Death would have him broken by a spear thrown by Telemakhos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just figure it would be smart to stay on your good side if I don’t want to get my nose broken and my right eye shut.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It sat on the hill above us, a dark shape crouched against the moonlit sky, its crooked chimneys rising like broken fingers from the roof. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Four bits of a broken doll: one blue eye and half an eyebrow, a bit with a curl of black hair attached, an ear, and a hand with perfect tiny fingernails; Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His teeth are broken off, both of the front ones. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow bus rumbled through a tumbledown section of town, an industrial no-man’s-land of railroad tracks, warehouses, and empty factories with broken windows and rusted steel roofs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

These are reading scores for the first five years of elementary school, broken down by socioeconomic class—low, middle, and high. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I worked in a broken system of justice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a long journey with a great deal of shouting, shifting and moving through rubble and broken streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every few paces, the tip of her cane strikes a broken stone in the street, and it takes a while to pick her way around it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The land around Trebon was rough, mostly thick forest broken by stretches of rocky ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to trip and break an ankle on uneven paths and broken stones. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at what remained of the elven-cakes: broken fragments for about five meagre days, that was all. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"I apologize for anything she might have done to hurt you. She's just broken." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to be old, to be forty or fifty with a broken heart, but it’s practically terminal when you’re thirteen. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter,” I say, and I start to pick up the broken glass shards. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of my teeth are broken off, jagged to touch with my tongue. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spots, they had broken or rusted through, so Tally and David had to ride carefully, eyes glued to the boards’ metal detectors. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I gave a sigh of relief and realized that I had at least one broken rib in addition to everything else, but I moved my fingers slightly, then my toes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her thumb hurt so bad where the nail had broken that it was all she could do not to cry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The wall, even in its punctured and broken state, was still an ugly scar across Berlin. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

To this, she added a medal of the Blessed Mother, a small blue bird feather, a broken blade from a penknife and a sprig of some herb. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light glinted off his war-scape of a mouth; half his teeth were missing, the rest broken or capped in silver. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The house settled into an eerie postmortem quiet broken only by the hiss of gas lamps and the weary tick of clocks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world's sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the classical theory of general relativity one cannot predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy perched on the edge of a straight-backed chair, adjusted his round wire-framed glasses, repaired at the bridge with adhesive tape, across his broken nose, and told about his children. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the right Kemper’s brigade had broken, but some of the men still fired. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We are sorry, but we belong with the creatures who have been broken and thrown away.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had broken into foreign homes, knocked foreigners around, stolen right and left. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” it said, a bag of broken glass clattering against a wood floor this time. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Behind a barn, by a pile of broken slates, his body chose the first option for him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When he had comforted the broken Gawaine in his tent he had been the one who was more in need of comfort. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Statues lay broken on the ground—whether they were supposed to be beasts or gods I couldn't tell anymore. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In one, a motorcyclist had broken his spine. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gleaming figure astride one of my trophies was broken, wingless, after hitting the ground. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 5:28 p.m. a cop pulls us over because Dad has a broken taillight. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

But communication between Du Bois and Jasmine had almost completely broken down. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The broken walls were covered with friezes of men and women in strange outfits with bands of cuneiform running both above and below. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I gave it a strong look but knew I’d broken her pot and needed to make restitution. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he’s broken his Hand of Glory,” said Ron vaguely, as he attempted to straighten his broomstick’s bent tail twigs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The woman dropped a hand from her face and scrabbled about on the floor, picking up the broken handle of some earthenware porringer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The curse of physical shame was broken by the sun; I was no longer ashamed of my body. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few rules that was not taken very seriously and was almost always broken. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only other person in the room, a husky young man with a broken nose, came over to Jelly, his hand outstretched. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In moments, my brother has created a plan for cleaning the house, broken down by task, time allotted, and which kid is doing what. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If I seem to be over-interested in junk, it is because I am, and I have a lot of it, too—half a garage full of bits and broken pieces. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, she seemed ready at any moment to fly apart like a broken doll. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Glass, pieces of Sheetrock, broken furniture, cups, nail polish, pans, hair brushes, mirrors, bottles, plates, rugs, clothes—almost everything imaginable floated in streams of water from apartments that looked like flooded basements. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Cilia had a key to the back door which showed hatchet marks, but was not broken down. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes met for a moment, and she looked broken. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had broken his pet’s trust—why wouldn’t he be skittish? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even a broken bone would bring out the lance and bowl. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Dawn had broken when Gwydion halted at the edge of a barren field. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I remember the smell of burnt straw; I remember broken fences and tom-up trees and heaps of stone and brick and pottery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all the investigating I did with Yolanda and after I had lit not just one but several of Vivian’s cigarettes, which made me an eyewitness to her broken promise to quit smoking. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soothed a little by the thought I drifted into sleep, broken often by bells ringing and the low rat-tat of drums for the prayers which went on at intervals throughout the night. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And rising up from the shards of each broken jar—Zane blinked when he saw it—was a fine sort of mist. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Archer flung the pieces of the broken spear across the ring and climbed the nearest chute door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Lancelot rode by, he could see them sprawling on the ground together, with the knight’s broken lance between the horse’s legs and one flashing horse-shoe tearing the canvas from the fallen shield. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, let’s get her in. Here—look out for that arm. It looks broken.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am a young man with one bad eye, who hobbles, who has left his family, who has lost a tooth and been broken by bandits to reach this place to find honest work. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of Nergal's demons had broken through the debris. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A woman, her hair tightly knotted, stopped gluing paper on the broken windows to look at them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dinner passes the same way it has for months, stretches of silence broken by his mother’s attempts at polite conversation and Caroline’s occasional sighs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came into focus again, I saw Hades kneeling in the ruins, holding the broken form of Maria di Angelo. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The broken giant’s skull remained a broken giant’s skull, yellowed and cracked, grinning its stained and savage grin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My thoughts feel like broken glass in my head. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since they had finished the brick wall—topped with broken glass and coils of barbed wire—I had not been able to visit Janina. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She had broken her neck in the fall. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra saw for herself the power plays, secret pacts, broken promises, bribes, and betrayals that marked her father’s rule. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

On this bluff geographers and archaeologists in the 1990s found an area more than three miles long that was thickly covered with broken ceramics, much like Ibibate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of the bat’s wings folded in, but the other extended at an awkward angle, clearly broken. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air now drove out of the southeast, broken overhead into blue patches. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while she sprinkles the collar of a white shirt her mind is at the bottom of the bed where the leg, broken clean away from the frame, is too split to nail back. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often at night the sharp jangle of the doorbell would rouse him from his silence, and in the front room he would find a patient with a broken bone or with a razor wound. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a way, it was as if he'd broken up with me as well. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We could patch up that broken trace for pulling an ordinary load. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she tasted it, she began to rise, then fly—not like the Queen Mother—but like a dragonfly with broken wings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world might be broken, like David said, but maybe they could create their own sense of wholeness if they could pull their shattered family together again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There are tears and broken words and kisses. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wine bottles and beer cans were scattered everywhere, broken and flattened by tires. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stout wooden door hung splintered and broken, as if by axes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mother hesitated to write me of it, for fear a broken heart might lead me to some front-line heroics. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was something broken in the country, this was certain, but he had begun all this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Besides Norm, some other people dropped by for “a minute” and then stayed: a baseball prospect with a broken wrist and some people that worked there—all kinds of people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have won him, and you have broken him. What will you do with him next?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the yellow of crookneck squash, and the nails of her grasping hands had been broken down, her fingers covered with dirt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We decided to let you sleep, poor child. Dr. Bulkeley has been here all night. Praise God — he says the fever is broken!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm afraid my friend has a broken leg," he called, "and I've hurt my hand. I don't think either of us can climb a ladder." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like this. It looks like someone knocked a hole in the wall in there. There’s a broken vase on the floor. I want to take a look around.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I super-glued the broken slats together and wrapped some heavy-duty white duct tape around them for extra strength. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The tempo of the roll call had broken. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no disturbed hair, no broken skin. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds had all disappeared, and moonlight brought the ruins into sharp relief, the buildings like rows of broken teeth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The spigot in the tub was broken and the water sprayed into the air. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman left her and strode across the room to the broken window to glance outside. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All that time. For nothing,” she whispered, and she sounded like her heart was broken. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall was broken two-thirds of the way up by a crooked fissure of icy stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Momma, when you were telling me about Black Lives Matter being like a bone, were you saying that Black people are broken?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Holes in the road had not been repaired; windows were broken; plaster was peeling. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicked a broken bone into the fire and rose to his full height—a massive red warrior in sheepskin and drakon leather, with dried flowers and herbs in his hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I try to get to him, but the broken glass beneath my feet slows me down. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a straw shoulder bag on a hanger, and Felicia digs with her broken fingernails for clues. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All had been broken and plundered; but beside the shattered lid of one there lay the remains of a book. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We wandered, necks craned, bits of concrete and broken tile crunching beneath our feet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His wife regularly wrote him lengthy, urgent and impassioned letters requesting money for food, clothing, rent, medicine, school fees, books, seeds and money to repair broken ploughs and leaking roofs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were from broken homes, had been physically abused and now abused others. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a crisp easily broken shell and the soft sweet meat inside. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, far off, were the shapes of trees and roofs, from which streamers of mist trailed down like broken waves pouring from rocks. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry,” Eleanor said; she bent down, but it did not seem possible to scoop up the fragments of tomato and cheesecake and shove them somehow back into the broken bag. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Which was weird, because he was the one who’d broken up with her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He picked an isolated but open space under a bent basketball rim, beside a broken water fountain. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I looked down and saw a drop of blood ooze out from under the broken nail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the windows reflected the sky, and one of the Black Jackets was repairing a couple of broken tiles on a roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When all the broken pieces are mended back together. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All attendance records for the zoo were broken. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can happen if it likes; a broken arm is better than a hole in the guts, and many a man would be thankful enough for such a chance of finding his home way again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legionnaires stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the front room amid upturned furniture and broken bottles of jam. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Though he did recently have the lock broken off. Had to get a new one installed. I don’t suppose your daughter would know anything about that?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two teachers in dark suits talked decorously beside a broken fountain. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dobrynya limped up, holding his side with one hand and his broken sword with the other. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a broken sword hilt labeled: This broke and Leroy got killed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Outside the jail Joe had broken fingers on both his hands hitting people or horses or doors or other such things. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out the test had been “broken” in my year; they were tweaking it to make it less formulaic—i.e., less likely to let in people like me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She’d have to account for the broken glass in any case; but Rita would get surly if she had to cook a second breakfast. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find only the frayed end of a seat belt and a broken buckle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even ambrosia couldn’t heal broken bones right away. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every week since Dorcas’ death, during the whole of January and February, a paper laid bare the bones of some broken woman. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling, squinting through its broken windows, so he saw Otto’s stout legs on the other side. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

H Company was broken up into two platoons. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She stomped away from her crate and over the rocks and through the gravesite until she was standing above a broken robot body. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The leg was not broken, though badly tom, and swelling rapidly. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve flung out my arms to protect as much of his broken body as possible, so there’s nothing to deflect the lash. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone help! In another moment I shall probably be a broken heap.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears streamed from my eyes—my big toe was broken—but I kept cackling. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Octopuses have three hearts, and all of mine have broken. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Bit by bit they coughed up their broken lungs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell into a strange broken sleep, waking now and again to the reality of my narrow cramped position and the sight of Maxim’s back in front of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The route out of the city is bumpy and winding, especially as the driver takes sudden turns to avoid broken buildings or unknown groups clustered on the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten that the nose was awry because he had once broken it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My beloved was interrogated to the tune of a broken rib, taken to Léopoldville, and imprisoned in the rat-infested courtyard of what was once a luxurious embassy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two letters, their seals broken, their faces covered with my handwriting. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, hearing Isaac’s impotent wailing echoing from the night of the broken trophies. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He hasn't been back since we put the broken glass on the skylight, but he obviously remembers what a wide- open space it is. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They have not broken through; they have to retreat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and through a broken window in one of the library’s blackened walls I saw two army trucks enter the stadium through a fallen gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the tiny children went and did their best among the leaves and broken branches. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The dragon had won, and Joaquin was just a pile of broken bones and ash on the scorched ground, out of time and out of lives. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The other kids might hate Eleanor for being big and weird, but they weren't going to hate on her for having a broken family and a broke-down house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But she also knew that the best thing about breaking a barrier was that it would never have to be broken again. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And if Mr. Pepperhorn had the book, and somebody knew, it would make sense why Valley’s house had been broken into. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he fell again and crawled forward, trailing the wire through the grass with the broken peg snickering behind it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she had even dropped her glasses and broken them in a fit of rage when her tag-team favorites, Mud Mountain and Blue Moon Hog, were counted out by the referee. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my grandmother, whose constitutional gloom had broken out into full cardiac thunder, looked at her brother, as she once had her own shadow, and felt that something was missing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the stalled loom and the broken warp thread that must be tied. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had broken through near midday, after seven days of dark skies and snow flurries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Molly looks at the perfect swoops hitting the broken line in exactly the same spot. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were arrayed on three sides of the city, all but the river side, surrounded by piles of broken stone and casks of pitch and resin just waiting for a torch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She felt split apart, broken, as frozen as the island that bore the weight of Elowen’s ambition. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I guess I'd always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Carrie stares at him as if he’s just broken some unspoken rule. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His face is broken and full of furrows. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Abbott’s got a broken arm. I bet he feels worse than you do.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's okay, Maddy. I'm fine. I swear. It's just a broken arm. Remember when Cotton broke her arm? She was better in no time! Nothing crazy." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But now, as I stand outside in the broken quiet of the night, my synapses are firing with a million questions at once. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The bus jolts over the broken, unfunded roads. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now that the ice was broken, could he not do other things? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wheeling their horses about at the far end of the lists, the knights tossed down their broken lances and accepted replacements from the squires. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bright blurs of copper and silver spread over broken tabletops and portions of the floor where various metals had been melted by the heat of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even with everything broken and decided inside her, she couldn’t quite allow herself to disappear for good. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She held his head in her lap while the others attended his broken leg. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“He already had it. It was broken. He said a god broke it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He grins at me, and his two front teeth are broken. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It saves us from the bitter days of midwinter, when the darkness is broken for only a handful of hours and the sun is cold and distant, like the pale eye of a corpse. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The other young man, however, has a broken nose.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t told her we’d broken up or whatever, but she wasn’t stupid, either. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even without the artery sac bursting, Garfield would have ultimately died from the severe blood infection caused by the pieces of broken bone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I’d try to make up for it by giving him one of my old shirts or a broken toy. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The canoe of his grandfather, plastered over and over, had a splintered hole broken in it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew that, even though he was wearing a nineteenth- century velvet suit, had a broken watch on his wrist, and had just eaten a huge meal in an ancient kitchen. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All around me, there was silence now', broken only by moaning. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about my broken family back in Raleigh and wondered if they were thinking about me, a ray of sunshine at the end of a long, sorry day. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his mouth to hide his broken teeth, and said, “I need to speak with your commander.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I fluttered my hands like a bird with a broken wing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not broken or nothing,” I said, inhaling. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The slinking yellow dog paused to turn and bare its broken brown teeth at Omakayas, but she crossed her eyes at him and couldn’t have cared less. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The arm hung down by her side, as if it were a broken wing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other day in center field, when Webb and I had our catch, Webb said, You can't fix broken people. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth, whisper my heart’s wish into the wind, but the pieces still remain broken. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“This big, without any of the little bits broken off.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We shaded our faces green with a broken eye shadow that belonged to Dora’s mother, and my mother gave us two burlap sacks that had once contained basmati rice, for collecting candy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Walking barefoot was hard at first, but the blisters had finally broken, the cuts had healed, and her soles had turned to leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were many iron shrapnel balls in the rubble of the houses and on the road beside the broken house where the post was, but they did not shell near the post that afternoon. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Next to Billy was little Paul Lazzaro with a broken arm. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The steps were crooked and some of them broken, but he went up carefully, and when he arrived at the second-floor window, he climbed through and quickly disappeared inside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But he had been chasing after tail on this strange clockwork schedule for so many years it had become a habit that couldn’t be broken, even if he did not enjoy it that much anymore. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was crawling along one of the broken branches on the ground. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Scattered around her were old pieces of lumber—some cracked and desiccated, others broken into kindling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ogden had broken into a reluctant trot due to the steep downward slope. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My nose was broken, and I had more bruises and scrapes than I could conveniently count. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mares cried for their own particular Young & struggled to drag their broken Limbs through the Grass. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So this is Jay, bearer of broken umbrellas.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The pavement between them is broken in pieces like a cracked eggshell. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ben asked when they had broken out of Ravenel County and in a hauntingly crepuscular light were shooting across a causeway where the locks and sluices of an old rice plantation were still visible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It keeps them apart. If you’d put them together properly from the beginning, she would have broken him years ago.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dawn had broken, daylight grew stronger by the second, and with it her fear that she’d be too late. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the iron tire on the spinning wheel was roughed up pretty badly and maybe had chips of broken rock and gravel stuck to it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had heard the talk in the yards,- a direwolf dead in the snow, a broken antler in its throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, who are you?” he said to a dog, whose broken chain was wrapped twice around the hawthorn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

People gasp when, in the next moment, one Youn smiles and says in broken Khmer, “Chump reap suor,” which means “hello.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From inside her Davos saw green gushing from a thousand broken jars, poison from the entrails of a dying beast, glistening, shining, spreading across the surface of the river . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yet I was not angry with her for speaking broken English; my English, too, was broken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her broken thumbnail left smears of blood on the painted marble, but she made it up, and wedged herself in be-tween the king's feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of them are so stable that they cannot be broken down by ordinary processes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With that, which had taken all her courage, Beetle gathered up the butter and the eggs, only one of which had broken, and marched away. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had broken through the horizons into a cold and lonely outside. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then it’s just me in that house with its broken front door, full of pageant supplies and Dolly Parton records. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Look how he does his work so well, how he lines the cane carefully, evenly, straightening the broken places so all the juice does not flow out. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish it was possible for me to show you the sea bottom in those days—the black bodies, the blood, the bones broken by boots and clubs! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at me, with her eyebrows weird, and what that kind of “sorry” meant to both of us was that it was over, that I had just broken up with her. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their broken state, they were judged and condemned by people whose commitment to fairness had been broken by cynicism, hopelessness, and prejudice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They pass shops stuffed with hanging meats and a drunk with a broken mandolin on his lap and a trio of streetwalkers huddled beneath an awning who catcall the boys in their uniforms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And yes, there was the broken line of his nose. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A walk of broken random flags, speared by fresh coarse blades of grass, led to the broken stoop. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, “But then maybe I would have found you on the cellar floor. Like with two broken feet. From the landing.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The right handle was broken and a few teeth were missing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Why do we want to kill all the broken people? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The streets were empty but of broken glass; the sky was black. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The only things left out of place were today’s Daily Prophet, still lying on the bed, and on top of it, the piece of broken mirror. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"He believed in you. He knew who you were, and he didn't think you were broken." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The whole tavern was a mess of blood and curses, broken chairs and fists and faces. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A real chest beating sends the whole jungle running, as if the sky has broken open, as if men with guns are near. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t broken through on the domestic circuit yet, so my national ranking was barely worth mentioning. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Couples who are probably old now, maybe broken up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Fair words. Who is to see if they are honoured? What is to happen if they are broken?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ramsay had left him with so many broken teeth that chewing was an agony. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he got back reports from friends saying that his son had broken free with the ball and then hesitated near the goal line, as if he was scared of getting hit. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She deals with securing the boat against the wall as her partner steps closer to the broken window where Alec and Lana stand. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I would’ve broken my back if I hadn’t crashed into the soft sand of a dune. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion asked innocently, wiping bubbles of blood off his broken lip with the back of his hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Married. You know—for ever. They say ‘for ever’ in the Indian words; it can’t be broken.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crow had tricked him into flying, but when he woke up he was broken and the world was changed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s not broken. Look, do you want it or not?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby was broken in health—dying—but he had accomplished that last dream of his—to have Salem build a frigate for the United States Navy. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wildling grinned at him through a mouth of brown and broken teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe one of the bumps along the way had broken its little eye- reader and it would never send its message back to Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They are saddened by me and what they probably think of as my broken home, and don’t know what to say about it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw that the crowd had broken up, he jumped into the palm of Mario’s hand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tinker Bell was still held in Basta’s fingers like a broken doll. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His front tooth is broken from a fight he got into trying to protect Willie on the streets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Your Baconian cipher would have been broken anyway,” Emily said as James held the stack of papers behind him, hovering over his wide-open backpack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ivy moved forward a bit more, inching here and there to avoid the gaping holes between planks of wood and broken furniture. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Armpit was questioned four times by the police: first in Kaira’s suite, then on the way to the emergency room, where his broken arm was set, then twice more at the police station. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His eyes fluttered open and he saw Goober’s face all askew, like on a broken movie film. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A string of thoughts runs through my head like a song I can’t get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Well, I had not broken the decision, but neither had I accepted it wholly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Koreans stood there, uneasy, trying to explain difficult notions in a broken English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seemed to be less shocked by it now than I had the first time last August, when it had broken over our heads like a thunderclap in a flawless sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smaller fetterlings poured in through the breach around it, leaping over the broken branches and thundering across the field. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If only thoughts didn’t have to be broken down into words. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Often she would climb out to the figurehead, despite her broken leg, and sit, looking down at the ground below. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were instructed to hold my father by the waist while the doctor grabbed him by the wrist of the broken arm and shouted, ‘Pull men, pull! Pull as hard as you can!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Lucky it was just a broken bone and not a snakebite.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I'd apparently broken out of the hospital in a rabid rampage, and every student with a cough or runny nose was now a suspected plague carrier and being rushed to the doctor. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The fire had gone out, and day had not yet broken. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But there was something too familiar about the sound the car made, a broken muffler sound he had heard before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Liquor from the broken bottle began to patter an irregular rhythm onto the floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A kick from a guard’s boot had broken the fingers of one of his hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Meetings of the High Organ, general members’ meetings, and meetings of Ulundi were generally not broken up unless they were too conspicuous. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worried about her broken leg and thought about how saddle sore she must be. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The familiar smell of woods and grass and the silence, broken only by birds chirping and tiny twigs breaking underfoot, reveals the spot even before my blindfold is off. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Dad waded toward me through the snowdrifts, and as he stepped into a beam from the broken headlights I saw a six-inch gash in his forearm and blood slashing into the snow. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Many hours later as we approach Vietnam, the fisherman, in broken Khmer, tells us to lie on the floor and keep our heads down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One said, “I don’t think it’s broken, but it sure is a bad sprain.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind whistled through the broken doors, playing us the kind of screeching song that made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the middle of orchestra, she had, according to the freshmen vice principal, broken the teacher’s bow over her knee and thrown the pieces in the teacher’s face. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The branches twisted and grated against each other like broken teeth. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

If Jon had not interposed his shield, it might have staved his breastplate in and broken half his ribs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But now, glancing down, I saw something else: silver sparkles, bright-needled splinters from the broken mirror, mixed with large, unmistakable shards of a gold-rimmed highball glass, the twin of the one in my own hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thornton was himself bruised and battered, and he went carefully over Buck’s body, when he had been brought around, finding three broken ribs. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their further amazement, this almost naked man greeted them in broken but understandable English. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the Old City, Baba points out the fine mansions and covered souqs, the ancient caravanserais, the mosques and churches—everything burnt and broken and twisted. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Cakes had warned us darkly that he would take broken bottles out of our pay. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

To them we are the broken pieces of the family. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Kojo was kind of skinny and always wore the style of thick-rimmed glasses that couldn’t get broken when you played sports. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Wedgies, wet willies, dead legs, and broken noses—those are our things. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A few tiny glittering shards of broken glass remained, though the mirror was now five feet from where it had landed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He made spelling and grammatical mistakes he’d long mastered and soon he was writing broken English and then no English at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Said glass is broken and sticking out in jagged shards, but I can see straight inside to the darkness beyond. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

His eyes burned red, and he pointed at her in a broken, stiff way. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For all he knew, those darts had broken during the flight of the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A huge broken mirror leaned against the wall. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

How she'd believed him when he said she was special. park A week into break, his dad asked Park if he and Eleanor had broken up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

About a quarter mile away, a Hyperborean giant was sitting in the bog, peacefully picking mud from between his toes with a broken tree trunk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Another snap, this time louder, almost like someone had broken a stick over their knee. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Julie jumped to her feet and followed Pearl around a broken box, over a battered auto door, and into an alley. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about the bird with the broken wing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything; he watched my face warily as the pain that had nothing to do with broken bones, pain that was infinitely worse, threatened to crush me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At that point, I was so broken up I don’t think I would have noticed if the car had burst into flames. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

No light came into the room except for the moonbeams streaming through the broken window. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the Enborne, its surface broken by gravel spits and plant growth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suri was still asleep, but sweat dampened her brow as if she had broken into a fever. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was Islimach who had broken her tether and now stood over the body of her master. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

By noon the chief of admissions, Horace Tucker, wired a message to fair headquarters, “The Paris record is broken to smithereens, and the people are still coming.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Miss Wren appointed Bronwyn, the clown, and the folding man to be Caul’s guards, arming them with broken icicles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My voice cracks open the stillness of the morning like a broken egg. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bard and Eilonwy helped Taran try to shift one or two of the broken rocks, but the work was beyond their strength. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Mandy lived with us as cook and godmother of our children—and secret performer of small magic to protect us from colds, broken crockery, and the sundry inconveniences of a royal household. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“From what you have told me,” Mr. D said, “we have broken even on this escapade. We have, ah, regrettably lost Annie Bell—” “Annabeth,” I snapped. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

To the trackers, the words were as meaningful as scat or broken twigs, signs of the girl’s passage but nothing more, and Tanin kept it that way, eliminating every letter they found. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

To draw the attention of others inside, I realize, as four men emerge from the broken building. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

His blue house on the hill lay half in ruins, its floor burnt and its windows broken. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angry voices hissed in dismay at the massive clump of stone that had broken their progress. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He has Finnick secure it tightly around a broken branch and lay it on the ground. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The far wall of the glade exploded in a shower of broken branches and fetterlings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Saying them was like chewing on broken glass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even with the falling snow, the air had the sting of salt water, and we crunched broken seashells under our shoes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She knew that when an X-ray shows no broken bones, it doesn’t mean that more isn’t broken, like forgetting how to fly. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All of the influence that my brother had wielded over me was broken. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken buildings surrounded her, the scorched and silent cars passing below. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The rider's helm was made from the broken skull of a giant, and all up and down his arms bearclaws had been sewn to his boiled leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Think of it that way. It was broken and now it’s in a cast.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The brass coatrack had toppled in the entry hall, surrounded by hooked triangles of broken glass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He laid the broken wand upon the headmaster’s desk, touched it with the very tip of the Elder Wand, and said, “Reparo.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

How can I describe to them in my broken Chinese about our mother’s life? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bully shrieked, his tooth broken, and fled. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They went down a street of shattered glass and broken tiles where children were playing and watching the soldiers go by. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The voice is barely a whisper, but through the speakers it sounds broken and startling, so crackly that I have trouble understanding him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The ocean puddled at his feet as he reached for the broken gun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It may have been because of the coach in ninth grade who thought he was faking a broken arm and wouldn’t let him leave the practice field until the fluid built up. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, when Joseph was exploring the room by himself, he found a broken watch and his grandfather surprised him by letting him keep it. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The window on Tina’s side was broken and could not be rolled down. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On all his previous visits, seals could be seen basking on the broken rocks below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The storm must have broken its spirit, for it lay purring close to Caroline’s chest. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that Kaz and the others were watching and that she was making an idiot of herself, but after so long he was finally here, in front of her, and so very broken. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He thought of the sullen summer afternoons and the black, hot nights, of all the fights he had broken up and the quarrels he had hushed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Today a repeat offender had been brought before her, someone who had broken the rules before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you’re broken or anything. I just want to help you. Friends help each other, don’t they?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The deputy pivoted in the direction of the doorway and shouted at a featureless face broken up in equidistant penumbras by four bars, “Who’s there?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ryan pulled the broken motorcycle out of his pocket and said to Brad, “See what you did?” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was much too large for him and the teeth were broken, but they rattled as he thrust the spear down between us. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had several painful ribs, although I couldn’t tell if they were broken or if the cartilage was torn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our silence is broken by the echo of the dawn drums. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Years later their own eyes would glaze as they cupped their chins in remembrance of the inchworm smiles, the squatting haunches, the track-rail legs straddling broken chairs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The boy with the broken teeth took another pull from his mug of ale and spat at Will. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francesca discussed the broken eggs with Sandy and Max, while Lewis and Clark wove around her legs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There have been cases of stress-induced cardiomyopathy, which also is known as broken heart syndrome. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Dr. Relf was replacing a broken pane of glass in her back door when he arrived. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They gathered such small boulders and broken stones as they could find to hand, and under Gimli’s direction the Westfold-men blocked up the inner end of the culvert, until only a narrow outlet remained. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for my new invulnerability, I would’ve broken every bone in my body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Asher suffered some cuts and bruises from broken glass, as did Roshan, but miraculously, all of us came out of it alive. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was that everything I did made the broken ribs hurt. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The remains of a central building and a well and the jagged foundations of several houses, like broken teeth in neat, tidy squares. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“He got in a fight and had his nose broken when he was a teenager.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had broken out in a sweat without realizing it and the wind on my cheek made me feel clammy and light-headed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Two or three,” I said, thinking of the rows of empty holes and broken stumps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I peel myself from the wall of the barn, decide that maybe my ribs aren't broken after all, and hurry after the miraculous children and their miraculous dog. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

One of the glass jars had broken in the sack. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He took off his gloves and stuck his hands inside his jacket to wipe the broken blisters on his shirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had only broken prayer to fuss with Pa about Miss Marva Hendrix. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In seventh grade he had broken his leg in practice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon lit the wide front hall in pale ribbons, turning the dust and broken bits of chair and wainscoting and climbing vines from feral houseplants into fairy tale turrets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They had maliciously broken into the laboratory and systematically destroyed it out of pure malice and evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the shackles were rusted, some were broken, and others seemed as if they had been forged that very morning. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For the present they were no longer climbing, but the ground was now more broken and dangerous in the dark, and there were blocks and lumps of fallen stone in the way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“No! You must never move a person with a broken back unless you have a stretcher. I won’t be paralyzed through your incompetence.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The common room was crowded, full of whispers, murmured questions, and broken sobbing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looks like an angel, if a broken one. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was Julia who gave me my first crayon, a stubby blue one, slipped through the broken spot in my glass along with a folded piece of paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago, the woods must have extended further, because you could see here and there ghostly dead trunks poking out of the soil, most of them broken off only a few feet up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was littered with broken rocks and splintered wood and pulverized shrubs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hearts aren't meant to be broken an infinite amount of times. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The idea of the proud figure lying a broken corpse filled Taran with grief that quickly turned to rage. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The field and surrounding asphalt track were covered with glass from broken bottles, and there were no soccer goals, only a couple of rusting chain-link backstops. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The race was an all-day affair, heat upon heat of anxious and eager adolescent boys soldiering on through wobbly wheels, broken axles, driver error, parental disappointment, and photo finishes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She stepped cautiously over the broken brick paving in her brown felt moccasins. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remains were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to determine exactly when McCandless had died, but the coroner could find no sign of massive internal injuries or broken bones. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything was broken when we crashed,” Viola says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He mentions that one stranger had a broken leg and that he had done the neighborly thing by splinting it before sending the men on their way. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They got more by thumbing cracks in the wall, spilling broken chunks onto the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I remembered all the times I’d seen one of my brothers burst through the back door, howling, pinching some part of his body that was gashed or squashed or broken or burned. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Stone rings grinned out of the ground like broken teeth in the moonlight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘The blade that is drawn from this sheath shall not be stained or broken even in defeat,’ she said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her water has broken . . . . . . while out on the ice the Packard’s headlamps brighten with each acceleration, as more juice flows from the battery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then some 600 million years ago, the monopolizing grip of the algae was broken and an enormous proliferation of new lifeforms emerged, an event called the Cambrian explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet behind, the broken tower still stood, no more burned than before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"He could have banged his head or broken an arm or something." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make sense, what Pet had come across worlds and through a broken canvas to say. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The boy with the broken face was nowhere, but his memory had chased me all the way through the camp. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Johnny Ray stared her in the eye and stuffed broken cookie chunks into his mouth. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s banged up...Three broken ribs...It could’ve been worse...Dr. Martin got us here, and Frank carried him in...He’s still out...” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We had to climb over a huge pile of broken stone and twisted metal to get inside. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at the broken table and then to Luke, still standing in the pile of wood and glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He might have a broken rib or two, but there’s not much to do about that. Just keep a close eye on him.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I try to tell him 128 it wasn’t my fault, he doesn’t want to hear about sirens and broken taillights. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Others say she suffered from a broken heart after her childhood sweetheart and betrothed died in a freak accident. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Dark-skinned, bearded, with broken teeth and a broken smile, if ever one erupts. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted up my throbbing arm, an offering of broken bone. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I am ready to go in armour,” said Mordred, “even if my arm is broken.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered who he was all too well; Bran the boy, Bran the broken. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still broken. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, to even enter the damaged store, strewn everywhere with debris and broken glass, would have required an agility that she did not possess. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was like stepping onstage at your first piano recital and realizing that you’d never played anything but an instrument with broken keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The tone was a meek, broken one I’d never heard before. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the second meeting with Reggie, she saw a broken person who she could connect to. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They came to the path and found that it was broad, paved with broken rubble and beaten ash. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z