Having no money anymore; having lost all his money.
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Examples for "broke "
Examples for "broke "
1 However, St. Louis broke through just 55 seconds into the second period.
2 However, they broke a long list of lockdown regulations in the process.
3 Good interactions too often broke down before they reached the opposition area.
4 The voice of the tall stranger in the corner broke in here:
5 So I had a really great year - and then went broke .
1 Dubai-based Paris Group bought nearly bankrupt fashion house Gianfranco Ferre last year.
2 The company has said those affiliates add value to its bankrupt business.
3 Rawlings has previously said that pension problems threaten to bankrupt the city.
4 The Turpins were declared bankrupt seven years ago, WBC News has reported.
5 Unlike the state, businesses have to produce value -or go bankrupt .
1 Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless , he bought the French Laundry.
2 My grandparents arrived penniless , started a small family business and voted Tory.
3 Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless .
4 And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
5 He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
1 Parents were too hard up to provide any extra money, she said.
2 The wind is blowing hard up above and the waves are high.
3 Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling.
4 I took the ring because I was hard up - needed money at once.
5 The only thing I can think about now is being hard up .
1 And, when it all suddenly went belly - up , questions began to be asked.
2 The creature tumbled down the wall and lay belly - up on the floor.
3 CLearly he hasn't heard about the Red Cafe which went belly - up in Dublin.
4 After the summer flood the fishermen find carp floating belly - up in the shallows.
5 Like bubbles rising in a cauldron, hundreds of silvery fish bobbed belly - up , dead.
6 It lands belly - up , soundless except for the whine of its engine.
7 Doofus was asleep, too, belly - up on the rug by the bed.
8 A dead beetle, taller than me, lies belly - up on the rough-hewn wooden floor.
9 Some larger mortgage companies, like American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. AHMIQ.PK, have gone belly - up .
10 Even if you have inside information about a stock, it can still go belly - up .
11 Ebert Construction is the latest construction company to go belly - up .
12 The property was sold, the building was knocked down, then the buyer went belly - up .
13 One or several individual funds could go belly - up with no financial impact on the company.
14 Five years ago this month, Lehman Brothers went belly - up .
15 When my two-year visa was coming to an end, everything was going belly - up at home.
16 Many e-learning startups have gone belly - up , realizing the enormous costs of launching efficacious courses online.
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