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Significados de brittle em inglês

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Confection.

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toffee
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toffee

Caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets.

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Examples for "grillage"
Examples for "grillage"
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The grillage is filled solidly with concrete and flushed smooth on top to receive the brickwork of the chimney.
The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
2
It lay behind ramparts of coal, of grillage timbers and piling, of shedded cement barrels, and tons of steel.
The Iron Trail
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The rooms are panelled in carved cedar-wood, and there is charming "grillage" iron-work in the fanlights and outside gates.
Here, There and Everywhere
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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.
The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
5
"I'm going to get Carlile to rig some mortar grillage on the key buildings."
Anvil Gate
1
Enrique wore a tux coat with jeans, his boots were peanut brittle-colored ostrich.
A nose for justice
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I thanked them for the peanut brittle and closed the door behind them.
Seven up
3
Ice, peanut brittle, and popcorn kernels are all hard on teeth.
The beauty diet: looking great has never been so delicious
4
Some had become experts in making peanut brittle and fudge.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
5
Making your own peanut brittle is easier than you think.
The South African

Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped.

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(Of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured.

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Uso de brittle em inglês
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Excessive use of cannabis can lead to brittle bones, new research suggests.
The Guardian
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Several minutes more in the chill harbor would have frozen him brittle.
Winter’s Tale
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It is thereby hardened; rendered, in fact, almost as brittle as glass.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
4
The midget said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
Space Platform
5
Just thinking about it made my bones brittle and my spirit fragile.
Climbing Magazine
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For it is the sulphur and phosphorus that make the iron brittle.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
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The fires will make it brittle and it will chip off easier.
Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Undergro...
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After root canal treatment, teeth can become more brittle and break easily.
Jamaica Observer
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With the rake he heaped together the brittle filaments of burned hay.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
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Every day that it did not come, my spirits grew more brittle.
Siege of heaven
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When he laughed, the brittle shell of his forced bravado cracked open.
The bourne objective
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Would the brittle satisfaction of acquisition ever give way to something deeper?
A Fortress of Grey Ice
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The iron was extraordinarily massive, but the clay was loose and brittle.
Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography
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They are divided into two classes, the malleable and the brittle metals.
A Catechism of Familiar Things; / Their History, and the Events ...
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The grass beneath them was burnt gray and was brittle and slippery.
The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
16
The Kekovich series is about manic energy, but the jolliness was brittle.
The Guardian
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