terrain intersected by ravines and valleys.
- 1922  [The country was broken brule, tremendous growth of grass with much dead old bottom.]
- 1947  The lynx . . . is found in the slightly when a bronco he was riding slipped and fell on southern part of the peninsula in the broken country.
- 1963  . . . there was still a considerable area of broken country which both the homesteaders and the railways had shunned.