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brittle

Not flexible; easy to break under stress or pressure

brittle

A candy made from boiled sugar and nuts.

brittle

(= brickle, brickly) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped brittle bones glass is brittle 'brickle' and 'brickly' are dialectal lacking warmth and generosity of spirit a brittle and calculating woman (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

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Simple sentences

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Metals can become brittle at low temperatures.
After being out in the wind and rain for years and years the walls of this apartment building are weather-beaten and brittle.

Movie subtitles

They had windows of brittle glass.
Hmm. she's pretty, in a. in a brittle way. In a brittle way.
I wanted to look mellow and I look brittle.
I sell peanut brittle.
I ain't so brittle.
Oh, it's too brittle.
I must marry. Brother Edward's daughter. or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
Peanut brittle.
I hate peanut brittle.
You like peanut brittle?
Peanut brittle?
Where your bones begin to crumble like old peanut brittle?
He was always so brittle.
There is now available at the ship's store a small supply of peanut brittle. The ship's store will be open from 1300 to 1315.
That's the way it sounded, and I'm tired of being bright and brittle and broke.
Brittle, isn't she?
Yes, you're right. That's why the skin is so brittle.
I've got big bones but they're brittle. I don't have any strength.
That's the trouble with my regenerative process - it makes everything so brittle.
If you're broken, it's because you're brittle.
The same way I knew about the peanut brittle.
Well, thank you from the bottom of my peanut brittle.
Martha's a brittle diabetic.
They are brittle sheets and rather fragile.
Very brittle stone.
The whole world will end very soon - black, brittle bodies peeling into ash.
Brittle skeletal structure.
Yes, it's hard but it-it's not brittle.
Well, the tree the old man sat under, that was ancient and twisted and the old man himself was. he was as brittle and as dry as a leaf in the autumn.
If the substance is loaded into artillery shells and fired onto the surface of the Kaled dome, it will weaken the molecular structure and make it brittle.
Well, there's this woman in it named Mary Brittle. that tells you what to do when you don't know.
Tha bars are now as brittle as old cheese, which I crumble and scatter, so! Whoouch!
The creature's bones are dry and brittle.
The brain is a brittle organ.
Lisa, I know I can trust you. to inventory this glee club peanut brittle.

News and current affairs

For all of China's efforts to position the Xinhua news agency and China Central Television as competitors of CNN and the BBC, the international audience for brittle propaganda is vanishingly small.
The imperial order becomes brittle, and, as Kagan rightly notes, when the old order finally breaks down, mayhem often follows.
HOUSTON - Russia watchers are rightly focusing on the latest brittle ceasefire in Ukraine, seeking to discern President Vladimir Putin's intentions there.
Cuprates are notoriously difficult materials to work with, because they are very brittle.
In Syria, it seems inevitable that protest may soon crack the regime's brittle political immobility.
Prime Minister Barak's position suffers from a very brittle coalition, and he has recently lost his parliamentary majority.
But Abe also confronts a security environment in Asia that is every bit as brittle as Japan's economy was before his government took office last December.
The victory of counter-revolution and power politics, as in Egypt, has only seemed to restore the old order; the current regime's political foundations are simply too brittle.

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