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shatterable

adjective as in breakable

adjective as in brittle

adjective as in delicate

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Example Sentences

He and his wife, a stylist, have two children, now 23 and 18, who were raised amid imminently shatterable works of art in the Haussmannian townhouse their parents owned before moving to Rue de Grenelle two years ago.

Thousands of impressions of the artist’s fingertips dimple the voluptuous interior walls, each pressure point sensual evidence of Riska’s transformation of an inert material into one of shatterable delicacy.

Transparent, less shatterable, more easily molded than glass, some plastics are already used for airplane windshields.

Cooper hurled his canisters of penetrating gas, Adlington his allotropic-iron atomic bombs, Spencer his indestructible armor-piercing projectiles, and Dutton his shatterable flasks of the quintessence of corrosion—a sticky, tacky liquid of such dire potency that only one rare Solarian element could contain it.

Cooper hurled his canisters of penetrating gas, Adlington his atomic iron explosive bombs, Spencer his indestructible armor-piercing projectiles, and Dutton his shatterable flasks of the quintessence of corrosion--a sticky, tacky liquid of such dire potency that only one rare Solarian element could contain it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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