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Examples
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In America, land of dreams, you don't ever have to have a job as long as you have a broke-down past and a daughter in a funny hat.
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They're a nuisance, and sometimes the cars are a little broke-down and busted.
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-- Why, I'd sooner fight before broke-down old plugs of work-horses that's candidates for chicken-meat, than before them rotten bunches of stiffs with nothin 'thicker'n water in their veins, an' Contra Costa water at that when the rains is heavy on the hills.
CHAPTER X 2010
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Only three of the people in this solemn parade of broke-down van did not wear green robes and did not have their heads shaved.
Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010
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Only three of the people in this solemn parade of broke-down van did not wear green robes and did not have their heads shaved.
Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010
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And this one time in Provo, the train up and stopped beside Hank Williams 'old, broke-down tour bus.
Ticket To Ride 2010
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Dr. John had never made such a protest album, filled with broke-down people, built-up profiteers and pithy lines like: life is a near-death experience.
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“How many pretty muthafuckers you know who would give a broke-down ho like you a chance?”
Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010
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Dr. John had never made such a protest album, filled with broke-down people, built-up profiteers and pithy lines like: life is a near-death experience.
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Dr. John had never made such a protest album, filled with broke-down people, built-up profiteers and pithy lines like: life is a near-death experience.
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