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How to use friable in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Friable means easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder. Example: “Sand has been incorporated to make the soil more friable.”

Examples of friable by meaning

adjectiveEasily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.

  • Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
  • This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Avignon Quintet edition, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1020

adjectiveOf soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.

  • Sand has been incorporated to make the soil more friable.

adjectiveOf a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.

  • It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.April 1987, Old-House Journal

More sentences with friable

  • Friable asbestos is dry asbestos unencapsulated which is readily crumbable and has the potential of becoming airborne.1988, United States. Federal Labor Relations Authority, Decisions of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, page 863. From the entry unencapsulated
  • Beneath the chocolate was a sort of honeycomb, crisp and friable, something between biscuit and burnt sugar.1935, Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, page 18. From the entry crunchie
  • The tissue is friable and must be collected in a fresh state.1926, Beckwith Whitehouse, “A Contribution to the Pathology and Causation of Dysmenorrhoea.*”, in The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynæcology…. From the entry diaper
  • The approved variety of chalcitis is honey-coloured, and streaked with fine veins and is friable and not stony.1966 June 1, Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, BRILL, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry sori
  • Yellow-ochre is the universal colour, and mealy granules befrost the caps (under 1′′ broad) and stems up to their friable, indefinite rings.2014, James H. Willis, Victorian Toadstools and Mushrooms. From the entry befrost
  • Two packets of choice Russian Violet seed were then sown in friable soil, well sifted, and made rich with a bottom layer of old cow manure.1904, Sarah Warner Brooks, A Garden with House Attached, page 70. From the entry Russian violet

Meaning of friable

  1. adjective Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
  2. adjective Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
  3. adjective Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.

Full definition of friable

Questions about friable in a sentence

How do you use friable in a sentence?
Friable is used as an adjective. For example: “Sand has been incorporated to make the soil more friable.”
What is a short sentence with friable?
“Sand has been incorporated to make the soil more friable.”
What does friable mean?
Friable means easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.

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