broken line

noun

a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
a highway marking consisting of a series of disconnected line segments painted between lanes of a roadway, indicating that crossing from one to the other is permissible.

A moment later it stood clear on the blackened earth, and on either side of it the broken line of flame sped on.

A very long way down, across a sharp but broken line, the color was blue, and Deering thought the line the top of a precipice.

Across his mind flitted fragments of verse,—now a broken line just hinting beauty, now the pure passion of a lovely stanza.

Eleven days later the Canadians atoned for this set-back by completely re-establishing their broken line.

Already in the gloom he could distinguish the broken line of the cliffs sharply defined against the gray density of the horizon.

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