Is the situation so critical that they must try to pump water constantly into a broken vessel?

Her reserves drained out of her as if she were a broken vessel.

Black and grey were shot into the garden from the broken vessel that had once held red light.

What must I do to help rebuild the broken vessels?

Sometimes tiny broken vessels in the eyes betray that an infant has been battered.

But it was only the broken vessel, creaking and settling slightly.

Thou art as one who in time of death pours water into a broken vessel.

Waves drew a torn seaweed veil around the broken vessel.

The lips were fever-cracked, the nostrils red with broken vessels.

It was associated with a large number of broken ceramic vessels and figurines.