There was ominous meaning in the broken-off sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real] Reference

So it was not only the broken-off road that beckoned us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Gryphon]

It shows a CLOSER VIEW of a large, broken-off CORNER of a Cube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Becoming Human: The Seven of Nine™ Saga] Reference

POUL ANDERSON protruding, broken-off pieces of it scattered below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

Members of Tees Archaeology hope they can find the jug's broken-off top.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's pot luck at archaeological dig site] Reference

Dogwood, or beautiful flowers, or broken-off sprays of Holly or Jessamine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Mabel Pollitzer, September 19, 1973. Interview G-0047-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

In the grass beside the horse lay the broken-off head, its open mouth a faded red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Headless Horse]

Cindy Whitehead rode most of the '86 Plumline MTB race with a broken-off seatpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn, Turn, Turn: To Every Thing There is a Barspin] Reference

Surely there had to be something, some broken-off piece that she could use as a weapon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clockwork Angel] Reference

It is the orbitalis, he said to himself; it comes from the broken-off root of the eye-tooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn] Reference

After half an hour of wiggling, one broken-off tray cover (damnit), it all suddenly clicked.    From Wordnik.com.  [- Boing Boing] Reference

And here she smiled, as if at the thought of my broken-off sentences, but without looking up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference

Ayla used part to skewer the birds, and the broken-off tines became forks to support the spit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

I tossed the Shield aside so it wouldn't interfere with my movements and scooped up the broken-off horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

A broken-off length of kneeling rail was, and part of a pew, which meant I was too far out into the nave.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

The broken-off chunk began to move off more purposefully, shifting its direction of travel almost imperceptibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger MacBride]

Holly thought of the entire Mellow family first as one big object, then as a collection of separate, broken-off pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Position] Reference

The skin of the rudder flexed where the strut had come loose, and a chunk of broken-off weld came loose and whistled down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)] Reference

Part of the sturdy clinging ivy-stem had come away from the wall, and beneath the window were strewn broken-off ivy leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Fall Into Adventure]

He turned to see Reader standing on the broken-off limb of a Pillar, leaning out as far as he dared and gesturing with the axe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midworld]

We reached the broken-off end of the road by mid-morning and stood studying it before we set foot on its earth-drifted surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Gryphon]

A soil adequate for brickmaking will require that the length of the broken-off piece of cylinder is between 50 mm and 150 mm (19).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

There are polar bears floating adrift in the ocean on broken-off icebergs and there's a hole as big as a continent in the Ozone layer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Voted For Obama] Reference

The term is mostly used in a malicious way and would suggest the broken-off group was following a more negative path than the original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mah butt… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

I was standing somewhat straddle-legged at the time I hadn't heard of the horse stance yet, so the broken-off head fell between my feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [house: the remodelling, part 3] Reference

(The Fifth) laid down about engagements broken-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Comedy] Reference

"Well, it is business connected with the broken-off wedding.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Mother's Secret] Reference

Finally he spoke, as if continuing a broken-off conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference

Got a look at my left foot x-rays and saw 2 chunks of broken-off bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference

More than this, within the split lay the broken-off handle of a shovel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Porter in the Gold Fields The Search for the Landslide Mine] Reference

Jacinth to complete to herself, with an inward smile, her aunt's broken-off sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls] Reference

The beach was a shelving one, formed of what seemed broken-off portions of volcanic rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic] Reference

It was a broken-off harrow tooth, scaled like a long, red fish with the crusted rust of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference

Eastward to Cape Bernacchi and on past Marble Point, where the broken-off portion of Glacier Tongue was found aground as stated already.    From Wordnik.com.  [South with Scott] Reference

Such traits as the missions of the birds and the broken-off olive-leaf are passed over: poetic legend is smoothed down into historic prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference