How to Use unbroken in a Sentence

unbroken

adjective
  • The band has had an unbroken string of hits.
  • The Olympic record he set is still unbroken.
  • Most scenes are done in one shot, these long, unbroken takes.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Your body should form an unbroken line from the back of your head to your ankles.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Your body should form an unbroken line from the back of your head to your ankles.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For the unbroken lines, which still run pole-to-pole, this doesn’t matter much.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2019
  • There was hardly a dish left unbroken.
    — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Both have expansive views of the bay through unbroken panes of glass.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The year ahead stretches out in front of her, unbroken and untold.
    — Sadia Shepard, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Put your hands and arms on unbroken ice, and use available tools to try to pull yourself up.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Put your hands and arms on unbroken ice, and use available tools to try to pull yourself up.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Put your hands and arms on unbroken ice, and use available tools to try to pull yourself up.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Long views of the unbroken wilderness start to show themselves through the boughs of cedar trees.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Soderberg stages each scene in a long unbroken take, ending each one of them with a cut to black.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The next grade is composed of hard whites, which are often a year old, and smooth and unbroken.
    — The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • His trousers fall just to the top of his shoes in a sharp, unbroken line that emphasizes his youth.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Ancient and unbroken, stronger than the core of the cosmos.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • One of the biggest logs leans on the roof near the only unbroken window.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
  • My gaze races out to an indigo line of horizon at the base of a sky of unbroken pale cloud.
    — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Women who stepped in and made sure my hair was done right, clothes were ironed, spirit was high and unbroken.
    — Harmonyholiday, Longreads, 6 June 2019
  • Ours is not a story of being unbroken.
    — John Hope Bryant, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In a bullpen game, the chain of pitchers must remain unbroken to have success.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Through it all, Leitner has an unbroken bond with Padres fans.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
  • The unbroken wall of water felt buttery under my board, and fast.
    — Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 12 May 2025
  • But now, Butte faced an unbroken wall of flames that snapped timber like toothpicks.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Bursts of green crop fields cling close to the water, but in the distance is an unbroken expanse of beige.
    — Leon McCarron, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Task force photos taken during the search show the guns unbroken.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 26 July 2019
  • Along the rock, parallel to the surface of the lake, stretched an unbroken band of white, straight as a ruler.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Our winning streak, not unbroken, has been impressive and hard won.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The knife had a small ripple near the base of the blade, but was unbroken and perfectly usable.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2020

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