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Meanings of brittle in English
(Of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured.
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Examples for "brickle"
Examples for "brickle"
1
One night I came home from work with a quart of butter brickle ice cream and a rented video and found her.
2
Onward to somewhere; along Bayfront Drive, over to Brickle, and into downtown.
3
A clothier in Brickle Lane.
1
Has Captain Brickly telephoned?
Usage of brittle in English
1
Excessive use of cannabis can lead to brittle bones, new research suggests.
2
Several minutes more in the chill harbor would have frozen him brittle.
3
It is thereby hardened; rendered, in fact, almost as brittle as glass.
4
The midget said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
5
Just thinking about it made my bones brittle and my spirit fragile.
6
For it is the sulphur and phosphorus that make the iron brittle.
7
The fires will make it brittle and it will chip off easier.
8
After root canal treatment, teeth can become more brittle and break easily.
9
With the rake he heaped together the brittle filaments of burned hay.
10
Every day that it did not come, my spirits grew more brittle.
11
When he laughed, the brittle shell of his forced bravado cracked open.
12
Would the brittle satisfaction of acquisition ever give way to something deeper?
13
The iron was extraordinarily massive, but the clay was loose and brittle.
14
They are divided into two classes, the malleable and the brittle metals.
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The grass beneath them was burnt gray and was brittle and slippery.
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The Kekovich series is about manic energy, but the jolliness was brittle.
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United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
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