(Of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end.
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Examples for "broken-backed "
Examples for "broken-backed "
1 He drew a broken - backed chair to the table and set to business.
2 Think me an overwrought fool; a broken - backed corn-stalk, if you choose.
3 The speaker indicated a broken - backed rocker encumbered with damp clothes, newspapers, and books.
4 Nevertheless he is broken-hearted; and I am very good-natured too, and I am broken - backed .
5 Not one of its wriggling, broken - backed streets has handsome shops in an unbroken row.
1 While the visitors hogged possession, St Johnstone did threaten on the break.
2 When his eyes lolled, the truck hogged the center of the road.
3 Pushcarts, stalls, and tables full of merchandise hogged space along the main arteries.
4 Folk still hogged pavement tables, reluctant to abandon their wine beakers and gaming-boards.
5 The woman hogged the armrest and her bulging elbow kept oozing into his side.
6 But it was strikers in absentia who hogged the limelight.
7 Fashion designer Alber Elbaz and the French actress Catherine Deneuve also hogged the front row.
8 So they pulled strings and hogged the whole thing.
9 On both sides, men who have taken the floor, to the streets, hogged the limelight.
10 And they say it is not the first time the pig has hogged … Video, Audio
11 For the first month of the trial, Roux hogged the limelight as he rattled state witnesses.
12 Carla hogged the mirror, trying to tame her frizzy ash-blond curls back into a respectable knot.
13 Gone are the days when it was Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid South Africa that hogged the African limelight.
14 She's loud; she's obnoxious; and did you notice how she hogged Guy's entire photo session this evening?
15 Had Quint hogged the covers again and left her shivering without even a sheet to cover her?
16 I knew there were plenty of other egocentric commanders who would have hogged the stage for themselves.
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