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• Torrefied biomass is more brittle than raw biomass and has a higher carbon content.From the entry torrefied
• This paper yellows with age and gets brittle.From the entry yellows
• But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued.2020 March, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2020. From the entry nuclear family
• And so it is with praline, that crunchy, sweet, nut brittle that marries so irresistibly with chocolate.2017 March 26, Nigel Slater, “Nigel Slater’s chocolate and praline recipes”, in The Guardian. From the entry praline
• Given space and the right conditions, however, enchanter’s nightshade does spread by fine, brittle, white running rhizomes.2012 July 10, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: getting rid of liverwort and enchanter's nightshade”, in The Telegraph. From the entry enchanter's nightshade
• The tone is brittle and morbid, emphasizing the eerie grotesquerie of Albert Giraud's poems.2009 January 12, Steve Smith, “Worlds Apart: Harmonies Earthbound and Lunar”, in New York Times. From the entry grotesquerie
• Brittle bones can be more than just a bother for anyone who is getting on in years.2004 May 24, Alice Park, “Health: Old Bones, New Hope”, in Time. From the entry on in years
• Alligatoring is a result of the sun making the top surface of the asphalt brittle.2003, Carson Dunlop & Associates, Essentials of Home Inspection: Roofing, page 24. From the entry alligator
• An unbendable form dries worthless, brittle, only fire unweathers cochineal mud.1994, World Order - Volumes 26-28. From the entry unweather
• On the other hand, too much phosphide may render the iron brittle.1974, Sulzer Technical Review, volume 56/57, page 13. From the entry phosphide
• The mash grass, through which the Indian canoes had slithered so caressingly, turned harsh and brittle.1942, Emily Carr, “Grown Up”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry caressingly
• If the acetone extract is brittle, the presence of a resin is indicated.1937, Carroll Campbell Davis, John Twiss Blake, The Chemistry and Technology of Rubber, page 857. From the entry pontianac
• It is yellow, brittle, dry and ricey and not of a particularly pleasing appearance.1920, Edward Bradfield, Wheat and the Flour Mill: A Handbook for Practical Flour Millers, page 9. From the entry ricey
• Any leaf contamination on the line is frozen, becoming brittle.2023 September 20, Tom Ingall, “Freezing the leaves off the line”, in RAIL, number 992, page 46. From the entry sublimation
• Bark peeled from them, brittle as cicada shell; in their branches stood tawny frogmouths, their beaks lordishly raised.2011, Sonya Hartnett, The Ghost's Child - Page 19. From the entry lordishly
• It is far too hard and brittle." She shrugged.2010, R. G. Alexander, Midnight Falls, Samhain Publishing,, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry Liz
• The alto saxophonist Greg Osby has a brittle and dartlike style, well suited to exploratory post-bop or slippery free-funk.2007 January 26, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry dartlike
• The wings are papery, light green and brittle when dried.2006, Standardisation of Single Drugs of Unani Medicine (Part 4), Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, Ministry of Health and…. From the entry trigenous
• For the purposes of rail bridge-building in the 19th century, this proved revolutionary, and highly advantageous over the dangerously brittle properties of cast iron.2021 March 24, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Metallic marvels from rail's Iron Age”, in RAIL, number 927, page 57. From the entry wrought iron
• Bleached and brittle stalks branch precisely, each finally dividing into an upcurve of umbrella-like spokes which terminate in a starburst of micro-stems.2009 September 11, Christine Smith, “Country diary”, in Guardian. From the entry upcurve
• Her voice was thin and brittle.1998 November 1, Susan Albert, “five”, in Love Lies Bleeding, New York: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry cordless
• A brittle piece of whimsy; and the author's snickering preoccupation with Scooter's condition (described ad nauseam as "mistoed,” “misfingered," and "malformed") leaves a nasty aftertaste.1989, Jim Kobak's Kirkus Reviews - Volume 57, Issue 7, page 494. From the entry misfingered
• Saffron milk cap has brittle flesh which, when broken, exudes a saffron coloured milk which quickly turns to orange and emits an acid odour.1976, The Gardener's Diary, Macmillan, →OCLC, page 271. From the entry saffron milk cap
• The batumen is made of cerumen (commonly brittle), resin (propolis), or sometimes of vegetable matter or mud mixed with resin or cerumen.1974, Charles Duncan Michener, The Social Behavior of the Bees: A Comparative Study, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 334. From the entry batumen
• He is grey, flat-footed and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous.1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other…. From the entry sou
• After stress is relieved, however, conventional ferroelectric materials exhibit poor elastic recovery—typically less than 2%, thus tend to be either brittle (ferroelectric ceramics) or plastic (ferroelectric polymers).2023 August 3, “Scientists propose method that imparts elastic recovery to ferroelectric materials”, in Phys.org, archived from the…. From the entry elastic recovery
• Some lunabase areas such as the floor of Petavius are faulted, which may reasonably be attributed to very thin, plastic lunabase cover over a brittle substratum.2014, Frederick I. Ordway, Advances in Space Science and Technology, page 42. From the entry lunabase
• The higher fracture toughness in the Graniteville tank car contributed to the relatively quick arrest of the crack even though there was brittle fracture in its outer portions.2005 November 29, National Transportation Safety Board, “Tank Car Crashworthiness”, in Collision of Norfolk Southern Freight Train 192…. From the entry normalize
• Mucus is cohesive and tractile, and is not very adhesive or brittle (even when considerably desiccated) as are the casts commonly referred to as true casts.1916, B[yron] G. R. Williams, “Microscopic Uranalyses”, in Practical Uranalyses, St. Louis, Mo.: C. V. Mosby Company, →OCLC, page 126. From the entry tractile
• It forms in a thin, brittle gray crust over the land around the edges of the highland lakes in central Mexico, particularly around Texcoco and the salt meadows of Puebla.2013, Diana Kennedy, My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes, page 213. From the entry tequesquite
• In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze, so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily.2009, Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, 2nd edition, page 38. From the entry freeze
• In comparison with other Australians, they were considered an odder sort of people – the banana-benders of Banana-land – a heat-stroked and skin-cancered people, dogged, ‘unimaginably tough and undeniably brittle’.2007, Raymond Evans, A History of Queensland, page 219. From the entry banana bender

Meaning of brittle

1. adjective Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
2. adjective Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
3. adjective Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.

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How do you use brittle in a sentence?

Brittle is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.”

What is a short sentence with brittle?

“A diamond is hard but brittle.”

What does brittle mean?

Brittle means inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.