(Of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured.
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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 He died unhouselled, unanointed, unannealed , and his ghost ever haunts my midnight hour.
2 Recent shipments castings EE23, G143, F47, and J29 have come to us unannealed .
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