broken ground

"If all went well, we probably could have broken ground in May 2001."

That's why I say we head right now for broken ground.

Now, 18 years later, the museum has finally broken ground.

No new office projects have broken ground in five years.

The school has broken ground on construction of a new building.

Not a single office project has broken ground since Sept. 11, 2001.

Only one office project has broken ground since the attacks of Sept. 11.

In the same period, Japan has broken ground for 23 reactors.

Soon there was heavy fighting in the broken ground between the two positions.

Jaw had stopped dead, and stood square on the broken ground.

"Most likely we'll be on broken ground," Slaughter put in.

She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas.

"It tails off in some broken ground and boulders down that way."

She stopped and watched him pick his way gingerly along the broken ground.

Six years after the academy's cultural district was created, the two major developments have still not broken ground.

She missed a turn and ran into broken ground.

They swept across the broken ground until they heard a voice.

Russia has also finally broken ground in building a new plutonium storage site.

I heard my uncle ask, as the two mares picked their way over the broken ground.

By last fall, two pairs of steam shovels had broken ground.

He took a marker beacon and planted it on the broken ground.

He tumbled over the edge of a bit of broken ground.

She noted that this is not the first time she has broken ground in an election.

He began to work his way southward along the narrow, broken ground between wood and mountain.

It took them three days to cross the broken ground of the Fell Pass.