brittle
Example Sentences
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A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
"This makes the tendons more brittle and impairs their mechanical function," explains Greta Moschini, a doctoral student in De Bock and Snedeker's groups and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026
We move in a familiar loop: outrage at dysfunction, ritualized critique, then a quiet hope that the same brittle systems will somehow stabilize themselves when the stakes get high.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
Even the soil, once rich and brown, had turned brittle and ash gray.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Vocabulary lists containing brittle
"Of Mice and Men"
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
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