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Meanings of brittle in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "toffee"
Examples for "toffee"
1
The finale: a sticky toffee pudding with toasted coconut and pot-infused chocolate.
2
Let your muscles turn to toffee and your mind go pleasantly elastic.
3
Carmel Somers looks to France, with her toffee apple trifle with brandy.
4
He saw toffee being devoured and none of it coming his way.
5
Along the street, food carts sell toffee apples and pulled pork sandwiches.
1
In one were sweet biscuits, in another brandy-balls, peppermints, pear-drops and toffy.
2
Twenty young people had gathered for the toffy pull at Minister Graves'.
3
I am sure this will be excellent toffy, but-Dick ,youshocking boy!
4
Another line of man-killers that we had to move were "toffy apples."
5
In toffy circles I'm known as the most progressive-
(Of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured.
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Usage of brittle in inglês
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 through the time
Brittle across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common