Broken Hill

noun

1. a city in western New South Wales, in southeast Australia: mining center.
2. former name of Kabwe.

Broken Hill

noun

1. a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)

Example Sentences

In April, the regional airline had reduced or changed flight times for nine services across four states, including routes between Sydney and Broken Hill, Melbourne and Wagga Wagga, and Adelaide and Port Lincoln.

From Reuters

“I know what it’s like to be hurting. I know what it’s like to be sad. I know what it’s like to be broken,” Hill said.

From Washington Post

Gibson’s advancing age and public self-immolation led Miller to replace him with a not-yet-famous Tom Hardy before preproduction ramped up again in 2010 in Broken Hill, Australia, where the filmmaker had shot “The Road Warrior” 30 years earlier.

From Washington Post

But ultimately, the song is about all of us — our failings, our imperfections, and our desire to have a relationship with the unknowable divine, said Marcia Polly, author of “From This Broken Hill: God, Sex and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen.”

From Los Angeles Times

Until a few weeks earlier, Treloar’s status as an essential worker enabled him to drive from his ranch in South Australia across the border to Mansfield’s town of Broken Hill for supplies.

From Washington Post