How to Use unbroken in a Sentence

unbroken

adjective
  • The band has had an unbroken string of hits.
  • The Olympic record he set is still unbroken.
  • Long views of the unbroken wilderness start to show themselves through the boughs of cedar trees.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • For the unbroken lines, which still run pole-to-pole, this doesn’t matter much.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Along the rock, parallel to the surface of the lake, stretched an unbroken band of white, straight as a ruler.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Most scenes are done in one shot, these long, unbroken takes.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The next grade is composed of hard whites, which are often a year old, and smooth and unbroken.
    The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • His trousers fall just to the top of his shoes in a sharp, unbroken line that emphasizes his youth.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Investors also need to demonstrate an unbroken flow of funds from the source to the EB-5 project.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The pillowy dash echoes the Civic with an unbroken line of honeycomb mesh across all the vents.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 21 June 2022
  • Bursts of green crop fields cling close to the water, but in the distance is an unbroken expanse of beige.
    Leon McCarron, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The knife had a small ripple near the base of the blade, but was unbroken and perfectly usable.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Soderberg stages each scene in a long unbroken take, ending each one of them with a cut to black.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • My gaze races out to an indigo line of horizon at the base of a sky of unbroken pale cloud.
    Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Put your hands and arms on unbroken ice, and use available tools to try to pull yourself up.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Patrick and his brother Claudio are the latest in the unbroken line.
    Ruchir Sharma, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In a bullpen game, the chain of pitchers must remain unbroken to have success.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Look at them, look at them all looking back at you: the queens, the kings, the obituaries and unbroken hearts.
    Hugh Ryan, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2023
  • Women who stepped in and made sure my hair was done right, clothes were ironed, spirit was high and unbroken.
    Harmonyholiday, Longreads, 6 June 2019
  • The team fairly quickly narrowed the list to just a few that had the unbroken expanse of land needed.
    Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Through it all, Leitner has an unbroken bond with Padres fans.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
  • The top reason for choosing to snooze rather than have an unbroken stretch of sleep was that a person couldn’t wake up or was too tired.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Jones has now paid the price for the dreadful form that threatens to change that 18-year unbroken run in the top two divisions, 10 of which were in the Premier League.
    SI.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But now, Butte faced an unbroken wall of flames that snapped timber like toothpicks.
    Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • That’s the voice of the unbroken, youthful beat writer on the shoulder opposite the crank in the devil costume.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 17 July 2023
  • One is a more than 20-minute prison break (the extraction of the title) largely told as if in a single unbroken take.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Task force photos taken during the search show the guns unbroken.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 26 July 2019
  • Though the two both get older, their bond remains unbroken.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Rage eventually gives way to riots, but Tarr’s camera remains steady as a rock, whether in gliding tracking shots or unbroken close-ups.
    Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Sometimes inspections last only one minute, which might be long enough to see if the packing seal has been broken, but a seemingly unbroken seal doesn't always guarantee that an item hasn’t been used.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024

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