brittle

Example Sentences

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"Hey!" cried Specimen, as the brittle sticks of charcoal went cascading over his drawing.

From Literature

As societies emerged, we began to develop egos, those brittle parts of our selves taxed with negotiating between our primal urges and the constraints of a civilized order.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Too much salt water makes it brittle,” she said.

From Literature

Running her hand through her brittle white hair, she mimed heating water on a gas stove to wash herself in the cold mornings.

From Barron's

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