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Example sentences for "broken country"

  • The road next takes an upward grade, and, approaching the foothills of Wenlock Edge, enters upon a rough, broken country, known in olden times as Siefton Forest.

  • During the forenoon we traveled up a branch of the creek on which we had encamped, in a broken country, where, however, the dividing ridges always afforded a good road.

  • Rough, broken country, with a good road, which runs along the creek for several miles.

  • Road passes over a broken country to a water-hole, 9 miles; grass abundant; thence there is sand in places: crosses several arroyas.

  • The road for thirteen miles runs over a rolling country, then over a rough, broken country, with deep ravines.

  • When the sides of the big hills surrounding the level began to sweep inward rapidly, Bud knew that the grass level was coming to an end, and that presently he would strike a long stretch of broken country.

  • His left flank was up in the air, and the sound of distant firing, wafted over five miles of broken country, was the only message which arrived from them.

  • Methuen moved about incessantly through the broken country, winning small skirmishes and suffering the indignity of continual sniping.

  • De Lisle hardly halted at Calvinia, but pushed onwards to Williston, covering seventy-two miles of broken country in forty-eight hours, one of the most amazing performances of the war.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broken country" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    among world; bestow upon; bide here; birthday celebration; broken country; broken covenant; broken glass; broken ground; broken head; broken heart; broken only; broken stone; broken voice; four centuries; good grip; good wood; greater portion; heal them; her marriage; made whole; mental processes; muttered the; occupied himself; old and; palm kernels; will remain