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Meanings of brittle in английском
(Of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured.
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Examples for "brickle"
Examples for "brickle"
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.
1
Has Captain Brickly telephoned?
Usage of brittle in английском
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.
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For it is the sulphur and phosphorus that make the iron brittle.
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The fires will make it brittle and it will chip off easier.
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After root canal treatment, teeth can become more brittle and break easily.
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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.
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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?
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The iron was extraordinarily massive, but the clay was loose and brittle.
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They are divided into two classes, the malleable and the brittle metals.
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The grass beneath them was burnt gray and was brittle and slippery.
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The Kekovich series is about manic energy, but the jolliness was brittle.
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United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common