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Example sentences for "busted"

Lexicographically close words:
busshop; bussing; bust; bustard; bustards; busters; bustin; busting; bustle; bustled
  1. One mornin' the kid busted into the kitchen.

  2. I didn't like to tell him that I was flat busted count of goin' into K.

  3. Long about midnight I was woke up by somebody a hollerin' fire, and when I busted out of the tent the whole row of shacks was a blazin'.

  4. The saddle got hung up, but the steer was a runnin' so hard that he jist busted the rope and kept on a goin' an' I reckin is a goin' yet.

  5. Dey's a old sugar boat out on de bayou with blood and sugar runnin' long side de busted barrels.

  6. It takes us two days to get there and I thinks my back busted sho' 'nough, it was sich rough ridin'.

  7. Anybody'd think I was a busted grub wagon," he grumbled.

  8. I hurt it a little when I was getting in the mail wagon yesterday evening--busted her open.

  9. She busted him plenty with that soft-nose.

  10. I seen the track of that busted tire plain in the half-dried mud, little ways up the trail.

  11. I don't think she's busted much, though at first I thought he'd knocked the knee cap plump off.

  12. Ther revenuer slips up with knowledge thet he gains by busted faith an' spies.

  13. Ef thet's true he didn't jest attack a furriner, but he affronted every Stacy an' busted ther truce ter boot!

  14. One o' yer ribs might ha' busted an' pierced a lung an' ye'd bleed to death internally.

  15. He busted into churches, fooled ar-round with other men's wives, curled his hair with a poker an' smelled iv perfumery like a Saturday night car.

  16. In Nebrasky th' shackles ar-re busted because father forgot to wipe his boots; in New York because mother knows a Judge in South Dakota.

  17. When there was no more money to pay the dividends with, and no more loans to be raised, Eldorado busted up.

  18. I might meddle and muss till I busted up the whole concern; play, after all, into the hands of the devil, and have the people praying to get back to their old original Providence.

  19. I was on the boards for a month, when the company busted up.

  20. For or'nary blessin's you may use the plan of Joshua Mixer, the man who had the biggest claim in Empire City before it busted up.

  21. I wouldn't have that there busted B'lowbridger aware on it, or her people might make it tell agin' the damages I mean to get.

  22. My private affairs is to get appinted to the Lock as reg'lar keeper at fust hand, and to have the law of a busted B'low-Bridge steamer which drownded of me.

  23. And this was the reason that long ago, My love fell out of a tree, And busted herself on a cruel rock; A solemn sight to see, For it spoiled the hat and gown and looks Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

  24. And there I stayed in dry dock for three weeks, while the doctor done his best to patch up my busted trotter and get me off the ways and into active service again.

  25. A land company tried to develop that section of beach once and they put in the road; but the land didn't sell and the company busted and after that eight mile the road is just beach sand, soft and coarse.

  26. He's in the hospital right now with a busted arm, and I won't hear a word against him.

  27. Not an unkind word ever passed between us, and yet he busted me down to a dollar.

  28. I wished I could 'a' tole 'em dey was a liar and a-busted 'em wide open!

  29. First I thought they were white stones, but when I busted one, and the white and yellow came out, I found they were eggs.

  30. And I didn't know they were there and I busted one of the eggs.

  31. Bully ground, Neddy, and I was busted when I located them.

  32. No man shall ever say that we have busted the beau-ful Cigar Sign Vision that he has erected in his memory.

  33. Last week I celebrated my 43d birthday, or I started to celebrate it, and circumstances over which I had no control arose and busted the programme, as mapped out by the committee of arrangements.

  34. His first impulse was to write humorous letters to the press, and thus become affluent; but the papers that were solvent returned his letters, and the papers that accepted them busted the subsequent autumn.

  35. I don't know the first ding busted thing you have said to me, but that is my misfortune.

  36. I busted my word to warn you, Jim, and the claim is worth a fortune to you and little Skeezucks.

  37. Lak Vinnipeg have busted hisself, an' cover all de vorld," exclaimed Rollin, with a look of real alarm at his companions.

  38. He busted his own records and riz higher'n his own water marks for previous times.

  39. They was carting her from the little burg the show busted in to that good-sized town on the lake.

  40. Every time he busted out into another cussing spell they would start another hymn.

  41. It busted loose some plaster, which showered down into the room underneath.

  42. And all of a sudden something busted loose inside of me, and I sunk down there at the edge of the water, sick at my stomach, and weak and shivering.

  43. Then, all of a sudden, he busted out into an awful fit of laughing, and like to of fell in the well.

  44. I held it out fur a minute dumb-like, with the blood and medicine dripping off of it, and all of a sudden I busted out laughing agin.

  45. I nearly busted my neck trying fur to see him, but I couldn't.

  46. That show busted up before the fair closed.

  47. The circus had busted without paying them nothing but promises fur months and months, and they had took the team and wagon and balloon by attachment, they said.

  48. And it busted on me all at oncet who them two men really was.

  49. I run in on him, and he dropped the strap and fetched me an openhanded smack plumb on the mouth that jarred my head back and like to of busted it loose.

  50. It busted out every few minutes, and the women would put their fingers into their ears till a spell was over.

  51. If they're busted they're busted and no amount of starting over again will make them work!

  52. I busted loose with the help of Martha here.

  53. Busted two horses' legs, though, an' I reckon you'll have to send on the price.

  54. Whereupon the hop managers had stopped the music and "busted up their ole hop" and gone home in a rage.

  55. If in stooping over to pick up that cent you busted your suspenders, and had to go and pay fifty cents for a new pair, thereby losing forty-nine cents on the transaction, you aren't allowed to make any deductions on that account.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "busted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggravated; bankrupt; beat; broke; broken; burst; busted; cracked; cut; damaged; destitute; embittered; failed; flat; hard; harmed; hurt; impaired; imperfect; injured; insolvent; irritated; lacerated; mangled; mutilated; order; rent; ruined; ruptured; scalded; scorched; shattered; slashed; slit; smashed; split; sprung; stony; strapped; tame; torn; weakened; worse; worsened