Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder.
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Examples for "crumbly "
Examples for "crumbly "
1 Granny Agnes's 1887 recipe for thick, crumbly oatcakes is still used today.
2 Rub this all together with the hands until well mixed and crumbly .
3 If this is not done the paper deteriorates, becoming brittle and crumbly .
4 Driven in the crumbly snow between Eddy and me was one picket.
5 Rub the flour and butter together until it is combined and crumbly .
1 Its friable cliffs and strong tides produce a changeable and barren sea-floor.
2 The grave was a shallow one, the freshly turned mould loose and friable .
3 Start with the pastry, which is tricky to work with, but delightfully friable .
4 A ledge of friable sandstone 3½ feet thick lies next below the roof.
5 The same field, well drained, is friable and porous, and uniform in texture.
6 Fifteen radicles which had germinated in friable peat were suspended vertically over water.
7 It was some chalky, friable stuff, and it gave at the first friction.
8 And such bones are usually more or less weathered and friable .
9 I didn't want to descend the route we'd climbed, with its friable rock.
10 The wrapper was of tarred cloth, almost perished with age, dry and friable .
11 Is the soil equally friable at different times of the year?
12 Initial bronchoscopy demonstrated occluded subsegmental right upper lobe bronchus with white friable material.
13 When a clot is relatively new it appears soft and what we call friable .
14 The walls of the canyon are composed of friable sandstone, and are usually vertical.
15 It is a friable material, and cannot be caulked successfully.
16 Hydroxy groups in the sucrose will make the resin friable .
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