broke
lacking funds
How often you will meet it
Rank 677 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 27,937 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.013% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- lacking funds also: bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke `skint' is a British slang term
broke in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Lady Maria broke into a little chuckle.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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The hound broke from him, and he tottered after him down the drive.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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So"--the iron face broke for a second into a whimsical grin--"so I offered you a motor.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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In this condition he remained until the pipe fell from his lips and broke in fragments on the floor.
Snowflakes and Sunbeams · R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne · Chapter 1
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He looked at her intently, a queer, mischievous, yet penetrating look; then broke into a broad, genial laugh, quite Bacchic and succumbed.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1