friable

Example Sentences

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The Army Corps, he wrote, “estimates that 50% of the sites on the property contain friable asbestos.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

But one piece of the more concerning friable asbestos - which can be easily crushed into a powder - was found at a public park in suburb Surry Hills.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024

Early Americans drained these swamps to acquire civilization’s most essential resource: tillable land with friable soil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2016

Tangier’s location in the center of the bay, along with its friable turf of sand and silt, leaves it dangerously exposed and fragile.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2016

Now there were open fields among the lakes and forests, fields with the crumbly friable soil potatoes love.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck