"broken" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He stood at the edge of the desk playing with part of a broken pencil, picking at the frayed end.
- He started, looked at his broken pencil in vague surprise, and traded it off for a sharp one.
- He was holding the broken pencil in his hand, ready to write, when she touched his wrist lightly, tentatively.
- He licked the end of a broken pencil.
- The hallways are littered with notebooks, papers, broken pencils and backpacks that are too bulky to fit into the school's narrow, outdated lockers.
- (The museum has moved that enormous broken pencil out into the garden, where it will harm fewer people when it topples over, modernly.)
- A comb, a piece of chalk, a broken pencil, one ten-centavo piece, one five.
- He was waving his arms, the broken pencil knotted up in one fist.
- He picked the broken pencil off the floor and inserted it in a.pencil sharpener and started turning the handle.
- Also, the first year can seem more pointless than a broken pencil.
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