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Meanings of brittle in English
Synonyms
Examples for "grillage"
Examples for "grillage"
1
The grillage is filled solidly with concrete and flushed smooth on top to receive the brickwork of the chimney.
2
It lay behind ramparts of coal, of grillage timbers and piling, of shedded cement barrels, and tons of steel.
3
The rooms are panelled in carved cedar-wood, and there is charming "grillage" iron-work in the fanlights and outside gates.
4
The platforms are framed of single-web girders 8 feet deep, thoroughly braced and carrying on their top flanges a grillage of 20-inch I-beam.
5
"I'm going to get Carlile to rig some mortar grillage on the key buildings."
1
Enrique wore a tux coat with jeans, his boots were peanut brittle-colored ostrich.
2
I thanked them for the peanut brittle and closed the door behind them.
3
Ice, peanut brittle, and popcorn kernels are all hard on teeth.
4
Some had become experts in making peanut brittle and fudge.
5
Making your own peanut brittle is easier than you think.
(Of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured.
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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.
15
The grass beneath them was burnt gray and was brittle and slippery.
16
The Kekovich series is about manic energy, but the jolliness was brittle.
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Brittle across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common