She picked at it, and the nail on her ring finger broke.

Her thumb hurt so bad where the nail had broken that it was all she could do not to cry.

He threatened to walk out because the nails were breaking his machine.

What if your nails split rather than break?

She screamed all the way down, broke her nails on the elevator's plastic lid.

If the train didn't move soon, her nails would break.

She watched as he tried to grip and tear the stone until his nails broke.

My nails scraped and broke, but they did not even slow that ascent.

I can't sleep more than half an hour at a time, or the nails could break.

His hands were very rough, too, nails broken and some red dirt under them he hadn't been able to scrub out.