Broken in a sentence as an adjective

When things are this broken, it's an opportunity.

I was employee #3 at one and rebuilt most of a broken codebase in the other.

There are core gameplay mechanics that are still fundamentally broken.

Our technology is good enough to make the world into a nice place for everyone, but we don't do it because our social "software" is broken.

[1] Only Turing has been "pardoned".My understanding [2] is that the "pardon" implies there was nothing wrong with the law as such, just that Turing is forgiven for having broken it.

EA is selling a completely broken product - and I mean that from the perspective of the average consumer, not the nerd who thinks all DRM is broken - and they're doing it for absolutely no reason.

Every language has hundreds of tacit grammar rules, many of which are not known explicitly even to native speakers, but which reveal a language-learner as a foreigner when the rules are broken.

It implies that you can define a macro and immediately have the compiler incorporate it in the compilation of the next form, or evaluate some small section of an otherwise broken file.

Everything about this story, right down to the questions, agents involved, luggage inspections and the man's apartment being broken into and searched, fits very well with my own experiences in 2012 with entering the United States.

Usually in aircraft accidents there's a chain of events, but in this case there were so many possible contributing causes that other than having better pitots that didn't freeze over, solving any one other problem may not have broken the chain.

Rather than the usual kind of review broken up into the usual sections, maybe a storage, space, benchmarks, screen, software kind of thing, we have a guy who has specific use cases for it talking about how he used it for those cases, what worked and what didn't.

Broken definitions

adjective

physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"

adjective

not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"

adjective

subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"

See also: crushed humbled humiliated

adjective

(especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts"

See also: unkept

adjective

tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"

adjective

topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"

See also: rugged

adjective

imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English"

adjective

thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"

See also: confused disordered upset

adjective

weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism"

adjective

destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"

See also: impoverished

adjective

out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"

See also: busted

adjective

discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"

adjective

lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia"