1 The broken-down old house was not fit for human habitation.

2 A broken-down wall at the back enclosed a small, dusty graveyard, with a scattering of dingy-looking graves.

3 Benji can look like a broken-down old cab horse with a real novice on his back or he can look really smart.

4 With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor.

5 Sitting on a broken-down couch in the cluttered Casa Maria headquarters, Flagg chuckles at that particular take.

6 There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking 

7 His reward for helping to fix the broken-down Time Machine is to travel to a time of his choice.

8 Because the traffic lights was broken-down.

9 Who is responsible for the broken-down machine?

10 eg. Who is responsible for the broken-down machine?

11 Unlike an out-of-service subway car, a broken-down section of sidewalk could not simply be shunted aside.

12 Chemically, these compounds often remain whole, unlike the broken-down versions in feces and urine.

13 Heavier coverings: rusting corrugated iron, broken-down walls, or at Hope Cove giant concrete blocks, mimicking the cliffs, whiskered with antique wire.

14 Vicky bought me a broken-down old car from her sister.

15 Long abandoned by a broken-down bus, my team and I were forced to climb a mountain under the relentless sun.

16 Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.

17 The last thing she needed was to be trapped in a broken-down vehicle with Piers Morrison.

18 Ali turned immediately to his right and climbed over a broken-down wall.

19 Ramsay was the first to ride off, with an unknown but substantial following, north-about round the town's broken-down walling.

20 On the journey home he felt slightly ridiculous, like some broken-down knight preparing for a tournament.

21 With these memories, I expected Galway City, my destination, to be a hopeless, broken-down kind of place.

22 Mr. Xu is now ensconced back in his simple concrete and brick house, furnished with a broken-down wooden dresser and bed.

23 If a electromagnetic pulse valve is always magnetized, it must be checked if the corresponding electronic switch tube is in electric leakage or broken-down.

24 There was even a long story featuring my own great-great-grandmother, a storm, a mule, a broken-down cart, and the heroic ghost dog.

25 So many trains crowd the rails that timetables are sensitive to even small delays—one broken-down train can cause long waits for dozens of others.

26 Because of a rapid increase of population in South China thereafter, the habitat that zizania grown had broken-down quickly by openning up cultivated land along the edge of lakes and rivers.

27 I want to work with the original science fiction actors, who are now in their 50s or 60s, and have them play scientists in this landscape who discover this broken-down Enterprise ship.

28 I was 13, doing my homework in front of my family's broken-down television, when I felt strangely compelled to look up at the screen.

29 Boxing’s two most gifted and stylish performers, in their prime the antithesis of the brute fighter, ended up indistinguishable from the broken-down old pugs they were sure they’d never become.

30 Let's buy it. Fire chief: What in the world would we do with an old, broken-down fire truck?

31 Such is the case with a new experiment that flushed old, broken-down cells from the bodies of mice, slowing their descent into the infirmities of age.