Everyone's at the table still trying to get worked up, but the spell has been irreparably broken.

Across the hall Tori, then 3 years old had witnessed the crime that left her mother's skull irreparably broken.

Younger looking than his age, 45, he had an air of emotional fragility about him, as if small parts of him were irreparably broken.

There is something irreparably broken in her voice.

Moscow's chokehold over the economy would be irreparably broken; hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens would soon be in control of their lives.

"A system where race and geography play a vital role in who lives and who dies is a system that is irreparably broken."

They were a last-place team, their vision of forward progress seemingly irreparably broken.

The silver cord was not for ever loosed, nor the golden bowl irreparably broken.

And because boards seem reluctant to rein in compensation, some critics conclude that the system is irreparably broken.

It might be a relationship irreparably broken by force of circumstance or particular events: divorce, miscarriage, failure to come up to expectations.