fragile
Example Sentences
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It led his team to sift colonial-era archives and convince families to share fragile letters revealing ugly histories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., volcanic ash overwhelmed the city and transformed more than a thousand papyrus scrolls in a local library into fragile, charred remains.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
"You don't feel safe when those kinds of things are fragile."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The system persists, but the system is fragile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Imprisonment, they say, now creates far more crime than it prevents, by ripping apart fragile social networks, destroying families, and creating a permanent class of unemployables.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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