Busted in a sentence as an adjective

Cheap people started taking their busted old cars to them.

Things turned nasty when his BBS got busted.

Despite all their complaints to me, they busted their asses and I am proud of them.

You are the old and busted status quo that the new hotness will usurp one day.

They would be 90% sure of getting busted, and it would be a huge deal breaker for a lot of their clients.

I usually busted about 3-5 crews a year and the resistance against me built.

Kids with the disorder have a busted enzyme that causes slow degeneration of neurons.

It is easy to be glib and say things like "cable being installed" but what about sump pump being busted and my basement being flooded?

These systems can also do geofencing -- if a plate for a known sex offender is spotted within a certain distance of a school, they're busted.

This isn't the first time the FBI busted into a data center all willy-nilly knocking innocent peoples hardware offline.

[1] "Gee, isn't the electronic subscriber number [ESN] of your Chief of Staff repeatedly going over to that place where we just busted a prostitution ring?

During my stay there i busted my butt, was praised for my work, got amazing annual reviews, promoted to senior software engineer and over 2 years got bumped to 60K.

In 10 years, do you want to be the old and busted equivalent of the MFC expert whose software was hot in year 2000?You don't make the Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, of the world by developing just for iOS.

Worse, the music they were sharing was given to them by record labels as part of their promotional efforts, so it wasn't even engaged in copyright infringement!Anyway, of course in the early years you heard about drug dealers getting busted and all their money taken.

If my local bank gets busted for some shady-*** ****, and the Feds confiscate some family heirloom along with all the bricks of heroin from the bank vault, what should we demand from our government in that case?And if we're not likely to get what we feel entitled to demand, what are our realistic options for doing something about that?

MythBusters covered this awhile back, and busted the myth: "The final explanation is that, even though the airplanes appear to be well-shielded against cellphone interference, there are so many different electronics in a cockpit, as well as so many different cellphones constantly coming out, the FAA doesn't want to do the necessary testing.

Busted definitions

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: broken