Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped.
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Examples for "brittle"
Examples for "brittle"
1Excessive use of cannabis can lead to brittle bones, new research suggests.
2Several minutes more in the chill harbor would have frozen him brittle.
3It is thereby hardened; rendered, in fact, almost as brittle as glass.
4The midget said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
5Just thinking about it made my bones brittle and my spirit fragile.
1One night I came home from work with a quart of butter brickle ice cream and a rented video and found her.
2Onward to somewhere; along Bayfront Drive, over to Brickle, and into downtown.
3A clothier in Brickle Lane.
1Has Captain Brickly telephoned?