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broken home
[broh-kuhn hohm]
noun
a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion.
children from broken homes.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of broken home1
Example Sentences
Most of us come from council estates and broken homes – boxing is a way out.
Wiggins - a gangly north Londoner, from a broken home, brought up in poverty - made it to the very top of a sport that requires clinical preparation and a calm head under pressure.
I came from a broken home, and I was just like, “This isn’t my path — I’m not gonna repeat this thing.”
I didn’t come from a broken home, and I had the best of everything, but, yet, I didn’t have what I would have liked to have had, which is full communication.
Israeli soldiers, and some civilians from Israel and abroad, come to see the broken homes, and hear accounts of the devastation, in order to understand what happened.
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