Broken
Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.
Locked in
Both terms in one sentence
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Due South: In the second-season episode "Vault", Ray and Fraser are locked in a bank vault which is slowly filling with water from its broken sprinkler system.
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In the teen newspaper drama Press Gang, Linda was locked in an airtight vault with a half-broken phone.
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Cloudcuckoolander: Frazz, who thinks that 'Purple' is a star sign Connect the Deaths: In the episode A Quarter to Midnight, Lynda was locked in an airtight vault with a half-broken phone.
Source: Series / Press Gang
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