What is "broken up"

Usage examples of "broken up".

But there were carbon water filters, and one of these was broken up and then pulverised in the galley food mixer—.

It wasn't as if I was madly in love with Ethan or that I would have broken up with Robert to go out with him.

It was broken up in or about the year 1824, when the Europeans first came to the country, and the remnants of many scattered tribes returned and settled under their protection.

Discerning that when the existing settlement was broken up some form of government must needs follow, they suggested the conversion of Judea into a province.

The block included another thirty or so similar apartment suites, most of them broken up and sublet to other tenants.

To them, identity was something to be copied, broken up, shared, merged.

Perhaps, favoured by some affinity of the atmosphere, its constituent parts are broken up and become gases at this barometric pressure and temperature.

Here and there monuments of the imperial age loomed out of the green, but many of them had been badly damaged by time, demolished by siege weapons, or the marble broken up and burned for lime.

The Pythagorean Order was broken up, but the bonds of brotherhood still existed between its members.

And if they're broken up into smaller states or factions they're as likely to open trade as to take shots at us.

She loved the sea only for the sake of its storms, and the green fields only when broken up by ruins.

At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the Mind of the Father was broken up into the brilliance of our Lord the Sun.

The lane was, moreover, much rutted and broken up by the carriages which had recently transported articles of various kinds to the tournament.