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

But his silent vote is profoundly disapproving of Bullet Park and its frangible felicities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Touching on the wide, mostly censored field of air research, Arnold lifted the lid on one new gadget: the frangible bullet, a plastic 30-cal. cartridge which flies into harmless pieces on contact.

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