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
“Dawson’s Fall” asks what truth means in an era when conviction matters more, and Roxana Robinson’s answer — that morality is friable — should make us sit up and tremble.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2019
It’s a joy to see them at work in moist, friable soil once the tarp is removed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2017
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
