Had to push the broken-down car. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He was not a broken-down old researcher after all. From Wordnik.com. [HOW THEY BEAT BIG BROTHER] Reference
In the boarded-up stores and the broken-down houses. From Wordnik.com. [Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album] Reference
In one place there was a broken-down woman with six children. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
So it is with a good character in a fragile, broken-down body. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Father's a broken-down musician who teaches the violin for a living. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
"My car is that broken-down 1997 Camry next to the Beemer," I admitted. From Wordnik.com. [Wajahat Ali: Fighting Wells Fargo and Foreclosure] Reference
The moving picture players in the broken-down sled piled out into the snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film] Reference
They went through, and he was lucky enough to locate a broken-down tricycle cab. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
"Well, here we are, Lundi -- turned into a pair of wretched, broken-down crocks!". From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
In that way harmony of operation and speed in mending broken-down cars is secured. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
There are hints of an older past: broken-down churches; dense, uncultivated forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Two Songs by Mark Power] Reference
Do we really want to become a broken-down, corrupt, uncompetitive 3rd-world country?. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Johnson: Unpaved: Out-Of-Cash America Undoing Its Infrastructure] Reference
I am a poor, miserable, broken-down creature, Nannie; what can you say to help me? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
The center named after him at the City University of New York: "A broken-down building.". From Wordnik.com. [Rangel's rambling floor speech has House Dems wishing they didn't recognize him] Reference
They brought in bulldozers to clean up Yasir Arafat's broken-down headquarters in Ramallah. From Wordnik.com. [Life After Arafat] Reference
Their barn's roof is caving in, and the yard outside is a cemetery of broken-down machinery. From Wordnik.com. [A Bumper Crop Of Despair] Reference
Niagara, the home of Toryism, he was a broken-down man, hardly in full possession of his senses. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
But with this difference: Iraq was a broken-down country with a ruined industrial infrastructure. From Wordnik.com. [Confidence Game] Reference
At one broken-down house he was met by a frail woman who carried a half-starved child in her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference
Walking down the street, you were just as likely to see a BMW as a broken-down van with a fender missing. From Wordnik.com. [The Streets Change, But Memories Endure] Reference
She, poor little broken-down thing, was not left to the care of a common servant; she had nice, kind nurses. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Her husband, Chanu, is forever bringing broken-down chairs into their flat, shrinking Nazneen's space day by day. From Wordnik.com. [Street Smart] Reference
He gave Boots an old broken-down nag; but Boots did not care a pin for that, he sprang up on his sorry old steed. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
But, of course, there was the duck and the cat, that could not be very safely left in the broken-down stagecoach. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
A good many look like broken-down schoolmasters or ministers who have excellent dispositions but not much talent. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
She did as I desired, and we soon found ourselves in a small room, in which there was some broken-down furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
The procession had not halted, but, turning out for the broken-down cart, continued uninterruptedly down the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
He was sentenced to a long imprisonment, and came out an old, broken-down man, without a dollar and without a friend. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
There is a hairy, high-nosed, broken-down nondescript, in appearance something between a horse-dealer and a pugilist. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Although a few broken-down Palestinian groups are based in Baghdad, Iraq seems to have backed away from supporting terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [Analyzing The 'Axis Of Evil'] Reference
Of the slang that is of good birth, pass it by if you can, for it is like a broken-down gentleman, of little good to any one. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
Depper's old woman had fallen, a miserable heap of bones and dingy clothing, upon the broken-down couch, and had fainted there. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Every evening he and Julius Cæsar Fish stand by the broken-down fence and look up and down the road, as if they expected some one. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
The poor Belgian people, however, must suffer because of the large ambitions of King Leopold of Congo fame and of a broken-down diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Moore, and Christopher North, but whom I remember, when I was first climbing into public life, a decrepit, broken-down old man, -- Mr. John. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
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