"broken" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a fine castle, spacious park; but all about it, from the broken piers at the great entrance, to the messy gravel and loose steps at the hall- door, had an air of desertion and melancholy.
- A narrow path zigged and zagged down towards the broken little pier that jutted into the unwelcoming ocean.
- Weeds and rank river grass grew between the stones of broken piers and shattered paves that had once been streets anal spacious plazas and broad courts.
- She found the broken pier where she'd discovered mussels.
- From the jungle-edge to the river-bank, among the rotting pillars and along the broken piers they lay, torn and mangled and half-devoured, chewed travesties of men.
- Most establishments along the seafront are pretty tatty these days, the view is of a rusting broken pier (why don't the council remove it?!)
- Commercial shipping began its decline in the 1940's, leaving only broken piers and abandoned warehouses as a legacy of New York's boating heritage.
- A heavy swell pounded and cascaded over the broken pier at the narrow entrance as we made a hair-raising dash through to keep steerage way.
- Dead men or shattered horses do not give a more vivid impression of the unrelenting brutality of war than the sight of a structure, so graceful and so essential, blown into a huge heap of twisted girders and broken piers.
- The chase comes to a dramatic end when the man who was trying to shoot at Julius loses control of the buggy and it flys up a broken pier then down onto the mines, destroying the factory.
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