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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Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
But the problem wasn’t going away, and now Perardi was broke.
—Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
By the end of the year, Alfred Tennyson, lately miserable, misanthropic, semi-broke, and semi-feral, had been made the Poet Laureate of England.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
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
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Adjective
And Cannon — who played with the Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs — admitted to counterfeiting in the mid-1980s after a series of bad investments and debts left him broke.
—Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
But the problem wasn’t going away, and now Perardi was broke.
—Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
By the end of the year, Alfred Tennyson, lately miserable, misanthropic, semi-broke, and semi-feral, had been made the Poet Laureate of England.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
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
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“Broke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broke. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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