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Meanings of broken phrases in English

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Usage of broken phrases in English
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Now he heard voices raised in argument and could make out broken phrases:
Shinjū
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He paced the room, muttering, in his abstraction, sundry broken phrases.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
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Thereafter she again chuckled fluently and uttered broken phrases to herself.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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I could only make out broken phrases and disjointed words-things like:
I capture the castle
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Jack was telling her, in awkward, broken phrases, of his love for her.
A Man Four-Square
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It moves in broken phrases, each note rising in intensity and growing in beauty.
Ranson's Folly
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In feeble accents and broken phrases they learned the tale:
Rolf in the Woods
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The conversation was carried on in brief and broken phrases.
A Mummer's Wife
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Then he heard, "As soon as the colonel" and other broken phrases.
Rolf in the Woods
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He held her close, stroking her hair and murmuring clumsy, broken phrases of comfort.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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She was pleading with him, in broken phrases, painfully uttered: Have faith in me!
The Jungle
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So, in broken phrases and in a small voice that quivered with anger revived-hetold.
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
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To the people of Brussels who crowded around them they spoke in hushed, broken phrases.
With the Allies
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She told him her story, incoherently, in broken phrases.
The Black Box
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We used to play a style called peckin', broken phrases … nobody does that any more.
The Guardian
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From their fluster and the broken phrases they uttered it was apparent they foresaw some trouble.
The Bishop and Other Stories
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