Examples of broke in a Sentence
Adjective
She is broke and homeless.
Can I borrow 10 dollars? I'm broke until payday.
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Sammi Burke, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026
Corridors are bedecked in vivid wallpaper with oversized flora and animals, real and mythical, and the hotel’s art collection that meets your eye around every corner is a go-for-broke assemblage of everything from old-world oils to ambitious mixed media and 20th-century American photography.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Like Jane Eyre—a governess who fell for her affluent employer—Woodley’s character, a young single mother, is a broke outsider in an exclusive community.
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
This is why leaders can be objectively successful and still feel broke.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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The series is bolstered by bloody good action and a fun infusion of absurdist humor, but Campbell's go-for-broke performance is the real highlight.
—Sammi Burke, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026
Corridors are bedecked in vivid wallpaper with oversized flora and animals, real and mythical, and the hotel’s art collection that meets your eye around every corner is a go-for-broke assemblage of everything from old-world oils to ambitious mixed media and 20th-century American photography.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Like Jane Eyre—a governess who fell for her affluent employer—Woodley’s character, a young single mother, is a broke outsider in an exclusive community.
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
This is why leaders can be objectively successful and still feel broke.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Broke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broke. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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