Vocabulary Word
Word: brittle
Definition: hard but easily broken; difficult; unstable; Ex. brittle situation
Definition: hard but easily broken; difficult; unstable; Ex. brittle situation
Sentences Containing 'brittle'
When wood is burned without sufficient air, it is changed into soft brittle charcoal, which is very different from wood.
Silk, lace, and wool when bleached with chlorine become hard and brittle, but when whitened with sulphurous acid, they retain their natural characteristics.
The roof was the soundest part, though a good deal warped and made brittle by the sun.
And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers--shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle--to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
True, from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance, somewhat resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as flexible and soft as satin; that is, previous to being dried, when it not only contracts and thickens, but becomes rather hard and brittle.
Besides, amber is a hard, transparent, brittle, odorless substance, used for mouth-pieces to pipes, for beads and ornaments; but ambergris is soft, waxy, and so highly fragrant and spicy, that it is largely used in perfumery, in pastiles, precious candles, hair-powders, and pomatum.
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