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Meanings of friable in English
Usage of friable in English
1
Its friable cliffs and strong tides produce a changeable and barren sea-floor.
2
The grave was a shallow one, the freshly turned mould loose and friable.
3
Start with the pastry, which is tricky to work with, but delightfully friable.
4
A ledge of friable sandstone 3½ feet thick lies next below the roof.
5
The same field, well drained, is friable and porous, and uniform in texture.
6
Fifteen radicles which had germinated in friable peat were suspended vertically over water.
7
It was some chalky, friable stuff, and it gave at the first friction.
8
And such bones are usually more or less weathered and friable.
9
I didn't want to descend the route we'd climbed, with its friable rock.
10
The wrapper was of tarred cloth, almost perished with age, dry and friable.
11
Is the soil equally friable at different times of the year?
12
Initial bronchoscopy demonstrated occluded subsegmental right upper lobe bronchus with white friable material.
13
When a clot is relatively new it appears soft and what we call friable.
14
The walls of the canyon are composed of friable sandstone, and are usually vertical.
15
It is a friable material, and cannot be caulked successfully.
16
Hydroxy groups in the sucrose will make the resin friable.
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