Broken-down

"Broken-down" in a Sentence (8 examples)

A broken-down car was standing in the middle of the road.

Sami saw Layla's rusty broken-down little car.

A broken-down lorry is blocking traffic in both directions.

Elias was living in an old broken-down building.

The house had broken-down doors.

Dmitri found a broken-down building in the middle of the woods.

And a broken-down train and the severe weather temporarily shut the line between Dawlish and Exeter St Davids.

We looked our last upon them and the indescribable rosy glow in which they lay, and then with hearts far too heavy for words we left them, and crept thence broken-down men - so broken down that we even renounced the chance of practically immortal life, because all that made life valuable had gone from us, and we knew even then that to prolong our days indefinitely would only be to prolong our sufferings.

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