How to Use broke in a Sentence

broke

adjective
  • She is broke and homeless.
  • Can I borrow 10 dollars? I'm broke until payday.
  • If it's not broke, don't fix it.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Too broke for a sit-down restaurant?
    — Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Of course, some things aren’t broke, and have no need of fixing.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Back then, when a team went broke, finding a new place for it was hard.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Dean would be a broke man, remember?
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The high-end, state-of-the-art, shiny and new coffee maker just … broke.
    — Jennifer Konerman, Sunset Magazine, 4 June 2022
  • RiRi should bless broke fans like me with the currency of bops.
    — Christopher Ros, Glamour, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Nakia Vestal was 17, broke and alone when her mother kicked her out.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 Dec. 2021
  • And as for the financial motive that Kouri was broke?
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • So to invest in a broke company is beyond me.
    — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There were complaints about the car traffic and the financial cost to the broke city.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 June 2026
  • Go out, be social and make memories—just don’t go broke while doing so.
    — Felice León, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This suited Reeves, who, like many of his characters, was broke.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Builders need to have a full package of design documents before ground is broke.
    — Brynn Cooksey, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Never before has a town greeted me with a broke pawnbroker.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Cleveland’s broke county’s, broke county has to build a jail and a justice center.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Sri Lanka’s government is broke, and the country is in chaos.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 14 July 2022
  • But the problem wasn’t going away, and now Perardi was broke.
    — Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Then Tennessee’s runner on third broke home and scored, beating the throw from first.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Still, the exuberant, go-for-broke spirit of the record came after the band had a few dark nights of the soul.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 1 July 2022
  • If only every actor could find the chance to to exercise such go-for-broke freedom.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This is why leaders can be objectively successful and still feel broke.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If it’s not broke, don’t fix it As one social media user said, bullying works.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • At the signal, Thoms pulled so hard the oar broke, forcing officials to postpone the team’s heat.
    — Kim O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022
  • Get out of that mentality of broke-girl-on-the-verge-of-being-homeless, living check to check.
    — David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Sor Àngela’s convent is broke, sick from a plague, falling apart, and in danger of getting shut down.
    — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Not a lot of acts are going for broke right now, especially when plenty of musicians are just plain broke.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The Pump Rules cast were younger, broke, and from my slight foray into their shallow waters, not too bright.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 May 2023

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