breakable

Example Sentences

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International aviation safety guidelines state that such navigation structures should be made of frangible, or breakable, material -- a recommendation not followed at the Muan airport.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

But just remember to keep anything breakable out of arm and leg reach.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025

Water in hot springs can “cause severe or fatal burns,” the park states, and scalding water underlies “most of the thin, breakable crust around hot springs.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Publishing in Polymer Chemistry, they made a series of polymer gels with breakable bonds incorporated into different parts of the structure, and tested whether the properties changed after the gel was degraded and reformed.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023

The toe was not broken because it was not breakable.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover