Used in a Sentence

unbroken

How to use unbroken in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for unbroken.

Editorial note

Once your brain thinks you need six TPS reports every day, it's not worth fixing you when we can hire younger, unbroken people. VCs love 'em young.

Examples15
Definitions5
Parts of speech1

Quick take

marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of unbroken gathered in one view.

adjective

marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon"

adjective

not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts"

adjective

(of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unbroken.

adjective

marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon"

adjective

not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts"

adjective

(of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land"

adjective

(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded; "unbroken promises"; "promises kept"

adjective

not broken; whole and intact; in one piece; "fortunately the other lens is unbroken"

Example sentences

1

Once your brain thinks you need six TPS reports every day, it's not worth fixing you when we can hire younger, unbroken people. VCs love 'em young.

2

There is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

3

They are the product of an unbroken line of genetic material passed down for millions of years. Can you imagine?

4

Etc, etc YC has unbroken some of these. It turns out that an application process and a few weeks with a team scalably works as a decently efficient proxy for success.

5

It led to a lot of accounting for me, but the final tally was something in the vein of 800 transactions in an unbroken chain. The high points involved folks buying $50 or more worth of transactions, down the line.

6

People want to be perceived as having an unbroken string of successes, but almost no one this in their actual track record. You had a bad job, and now you're depleted, and you probably think your situation is a lot worse than it actually is.

7

Take something like sockets: by using TCP, I am telling my development environment that I would like an unbroken, sequential stream of traffic to another endpoint. Just as importantly, I would like to be notified if this ever is not the case.

8

He founded Cryptography Research, which later built the as-yet-unbroken pay TV card system and the Blu-ray BD+ DRM system, along with publishing a crapload of crypto research.

9

When digesting unbroken food morsels, the stomach and the whole digestive system has to secrete more, takes more time to process our food, all this cumulatively increasing tiredness and fatigue on the body over the long run. I therefore recommend chewing so that you drink your food.

10

Focusing only on the atoms to evade responsibility for the value lost in smashing the glass suggests you don't recognize the value of the unbroken glass, which is nonsense. Of course you recognize the value, which is why framing the situation to suggest otherwise is dishonest.

11

USA Today should put up the whole unbroken discussion. Apart from the obviously important content and the obvious authoritativeness of the speakers, it's just a great piece of televisionand it's not even television.

12

They want an unbroken history of jobs going back to leaving college - if you decided to take a summer off and travel, god help you. Before you have even sat down to talk, they want references from your former 3 bosses, so you have to beg them for a favor to give you a recommendation - to a company which you might not even be working for.

13

A product/system/protocol/algorithm that has survived a contest unbroken is not obviously more trustworthy than one that has not been the subject of a contest. The best products/systems/protocols/algorithms available today have not been the subjects of any contests, and probably never will be.

14

VC-istan is a hypocritical culture, because it superficially champions risk and failure, but if you don't have an unbroken stream of successes, you become yesterday's dogshit pretty much immediately. What "we accept failure" means in VC-istan is that people with the political skill to make their failures appear to be someone else's fault can continue their careers uninterrupted, but how is that different from the rest of Corporate America?

15

PSD was never intended to be a data interchange format: it is the serialization format of a single program that has more individual unrelated features that actual people rely on than almost any other piece of software and has maintained striking amounts of backwards compatibility and almost unbroken forwards compatibility during its over two decades of existence. This product's "file format" needs to be critiqued in this context, along with similar mega-programs like Office.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use unbroken in a sentence?

Once your brain thinks you need six TPS reports every day, it's not worth fixing you when we can hire younger, unbroken people. VCs love 'em young.

What does unbroken mean?

marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon"

What part of speech is unbroken?

unbroken is commonly used as adjective.