Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped.
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Examples for "brittle "
Examples for "brittle "
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.
1 Has Captain Brickly telephoned?
1 One night I came home from work with a quart of butter brickle ice cream and a rented video and found her.
2 Onward to somewhere; along Bayfront Drive, over to Brickle , and into downtown.
3 A clothier in Brickle Lane.
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