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
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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing frangible
Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Into Thin Air
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