Examples of broke in a Sentence

Adjective She is broke and homeless. Can I borrow 10 dollars? I'm broke until payday.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The summer of 1977, New York City was broke, so there weren’t any summer jobs. — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022 Before the nation began to recover in 1897, 600 banks failed, 15,000 businesses went bankrupt, one-third of all railroads went broke and national unemployment reached as high as 18.4 percent. — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Jan. 2022 Its unemployment program went broke in 2009, forcing the state to borrow more than $2 billion from the federal government. — Jonathan Ingram, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022 When the symphony went broke in 1996, Ash helped keep the orchestra afloat by subsidizing the musicians’ paychecks. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021 Many consultants went broke and sold the merchandise at steep discounts. — Jonathan Berr, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021 Before launching Nasty Gal and Girlboss, Sophia Amoruso was broke, homeless and rummaging through dumpsters for leftover food. — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 9 May 2022 Bridgerton season two broke records as the biggest opening weekend for any English-speaking show in Netflix history with over 193 million hours viewed that weekend, according to a Netflix press release last week. — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022 In the single-cam pilot, Nell Stevens (Rodriguez) is broke, newly single and feeling old. — Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022 See More

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