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"Brittle" in a Sentence (17 examples)
After being out in the wind and rain for years and years the walls of this apartment building are weather-beaten and brittle.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
I don't like peanut brittle. I love it!
Metals can become brittle at low temperatures.
It appears that older men who eat fruits and vegetables can delay the onset of brittle bone disease known as osteoporosis.
On a Thursday morning at the state Hall of Records in Annapolis, Maryland, about 60 kilometers east of Washington, D.C., a dozen or so people were in the microfilm room, looking at photocopies of land deeds, tax rolls, and church records dating back to the 1630s, when Maryland was first founded as a British colony. Another 10–15 people were in the main hall, carefully transcribing documents often worm-eaten and brittle with age, the words within them sometimes grossly misspelled.
This glass is brittle.
Near-synonym: crackly
Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
A diamond is hard but brittle.
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'Do you suppose our convent, and I too, Are insufficient, then, to pray for you? Thomas, that joke's not good. Your faith is brittle.
Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
The project is based on a similar project, the Class project, which was started by the University of Cornell several years ago under the leadership of Stuart Lynn to preserve brittling old books.
Her heart fluttered, then stilled when May snapped the image away and her voice brittled.
Not being versed in the terms of English venery, he asked Abbot Ulfketyl what brittling of a deer might mean; and being informed that it was that operation on the carcass of a stag which his countrymen called eventrer, and Highland gillies now “gralloching”[.]
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