It causes hair to become brittle, and will dry it out.

Temperatures are so low that truck axles can suddenly become brittle and snap.

The manager will know only that his side has become brittle at a critical phase.

Furthermore, the blood vessels become brittle and break easily and there is danger of hemorrhages.

The fence had been frozen, chilled until the steel had become brittle and then shattered.

If the air was too dry, the parchment would become brittle and fall to pieces.

They will then become brittle and green.

If the sun strikes them too strongly, the leaves will become brittle and shatter when they are moved.

Owing to lack of nutrition the structures become brittle and quantities of the varicosed capillaries unite to form pile tumors.

Ye good dancers, now is all delight over: wine hath become lees, every cup hath become brittle, the sepulchres mutter.

Mrs. Hastings swayed toward the prince in her chair of verd antique, and her voice seemed to become brittle in the air.

Snow and sleet will weigh down branches but rarely break them, while frost will cause them to become brittle and to break easily.

In order apparently to excuse certain railway companies, a pretence has been set up that iron and steel become brittle at a low temperature.

If this is not done the paper deteriorates, becoming brittle and crumbly.

If the discipline becomes brittle and mistakes are criminalised, we know what happens.

That substance is whitish, elastic and sticky; and when dried becomes brittle and semi-transparent.