brittle

Example Sentences

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“Too much salt water makes it brittle,” she said.

From Literature

Running her hand through her brittle white hair, she mimed heating water on a gas stove to wash herself in the cold mornings.

From Barron's

We move in a familiar loop: outrage at dysfunction, ritualized critique, then a quiet hope that the same brittle systems will somehow stabilize themselves when the stakes get high.

From Salon

"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.

From Barron's

Akira looked at the ground, where brittle leaves and pine needles were ready and waiting to burn.

From Literature