busted

• “And when Ryan Torain busted free for a 13-yard run, Portis gave him a huge high-five as they crossed paths on the field.”

  The Washington Post: Redskins-Eagles, Best and Worst

• “The absolute lightning reaction speed of just about any animal turning on the juice after you're busted is something to behold.”

  How to Draw Down on a Turkey

• “But bad management too, financial problems for the city, a prison riot, and in his third term busted for using crack cocaine.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006

• “First there's somebody with my name busted for heroin in New Orleans a week ago, then yet another Gary Burnett appears here via David Gans.”

  The WELL: Truckin'

• “The Indians could no more be measured and "busted" -- as the professor calls the making of plaster casts -- than could the liquor they had drunk.”

  In Indian Mexico (1908)

• “THE Jesus wasn’t overly religious either — in fact the reason he got busted is he advocated for getting rid of complex, ossified organized religion.”

  A rerun as requested: Rejoice this day!

• “When the mutawwa'in busted the party that led to Marcos’s deportation, they separated the “showgirls” wearing drag from the rest of the partygoers, and then asked everyone but the drag queens to line up against the wall for the dawn prayer.”

  The Kingdom in the Closet

• “I love that you used the word busted — even if you just meant beat up, I’m going to imagine that you meant it as slang for ugly.”

  key lime meltaways | smitten kitchen

• “Ain't that good psycho-ology, as Blister says when he calls a busted flush? ”

  The Fighting Edge

• “A great drama will now play out in Albany, one that will determine whether Spitzer is still a comer or what, in another generation, would be called a busted phenom.”

  The Year of Governing Dangerously

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