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Example sentences for "broken down"

  • London bridge is broken down, Dance o'er my lady lee, London Bridge is broken down, With a gay lady.

  • The essential requirement of any defense is that it shall be adequate; because an inadequate defense will be broken down, while the attack will retain a large proportion of its original strength.

  • The study of war has taught its students for many centuries that a merely passive defense will finally be broken down, and that the most effective defense is the "offensive-defensive.

  • Occasionally it is pretty firm; in other instances it is soft, broken down, and semifluid.

  • And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

  • For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, that the walls could never be broken down, nor hurt, by the most mighty adverse potentate, unless the townsmen gave consent thereto.

  • Let not that great ordinance be broken down.

  • It is broken down; and it has been broken down for ages.

  • He may feel thankful if he is able to go on with his work, and does not find himself laid on one side, broken down in health and spirits.

  • It was to this custom that he attributed the fact that he had retained his faculties and vigour to an age at which most of his confrères were dead or broken down.

  • Those who are run down, or broken down, or are recovering from an illness, had better avoid entering the water.

  • White puffs of shrapnel from field guns were lathering the place persistently, so that when the German trenches were broken down it was difficult to repair them or move in them.

  • It is singular that the verses of this game also enter into the composition of "London Bridge is broken down.

  • To carry a lady to London; London Bridge is broken down And I must let my lady down.

  • But how,' I may be asked, 'is it broken down?

  • It is broken down; and it has been broken down for ages.

  • It rained so heavily that some of the horses became restive and plunged into the water with their riders; and to add to our distress our portable bridge was broken down at this first gap, and it was no longer serviceable.

  • Mr. Lyons, broken down by overwork, was also under the necessity of withdrawing from the field.

  • London bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady Lee, London bridge is broken down, With a gay ladye.

  • London Bridge is broken down, Dance over, my Lady Lee, London Bridge is broken down, With a fair Ladye.

  • They’ve broken down, sure enough,” chuckled Nat exultingly as the Nomad drew nearer.

  • They’ve broken down—need help—what can we do?

  • The boat is broken down and if this was a trap they still couldn’t work you any harm while we are on hand.

  • London bridge is broken down, Dance o'er my lady lee; London bridge is broken down, With a gay lady.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broken down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acre field; always felt; broken bone; broken country; broken covenant; broken ground; broken head; broken stone; broken water; brown stock; common use; cotta figures; four lemons; grassy plain; internal taxes; left tackle; material civilization; mixed number; must bear; press through; soon began; thin plate; water colors; went west; will cast; will think