frangible
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
You know how flexible, frangible and febrile language is; you recognise it as both combatant and friend.
From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013
Neither the frangible Laotian regulars nor the lightly armed, CIA-backed Meo guerrillas of Laotian General Vang Pao have been able to withstand them.
From Time Magazine Archive
They fret in frustrated juxtaposition, kept from an explosive embrace by a frangible barrier of chemical propriety.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he rejected the claim that diamonds cannot be smashed with a hammer: in recent times, every diamond tested had proved to be frangible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
