Brittle In A Sentence

• Peter sighed over the lovely and brittle world.
• The wind plays havoc with their brittle branches.
• It is not durable in soil and becomes brittle with age.
• Old briar-veins dragged at brittle stalks.
• What nerves she had: rattling like brittle sticks!
• And forgive my poor brittle body, which shakes and breaks.

• Boil all together until it becomes brittle when a small quantity is dropped in water.
• They began to climb the escarpment which was almost a straight vertical rise of brittle rock.
• It is often brittle and breaks easily, or it will not divide evenly in breaking.
• All the ground was strewn with dead wood, and near by was a growth of low and brittle bushes.
• They looked brittle and hollow, as though made of papier mache and set down in the landscape.
• The melted gum hardened quickly, but it became so brittle that a touch would loosen it.
• There it is on the table, in a glass flask, brittle as virtue, light as sin, and fragile as folly.
• But then I never was very sturdy on my legs ... which were then like brittle pipestems....
• A little too inclined to a high and brittle sort of dissonance over which she seemed to have no control.
• The old wood was so brittle that it would have been very easy for me to open the coffin with any sort of a tool.
• This is harder than celluloid and non-inflammable, but has the disadvantages of being more brittle and of absorbing moisture.
• The resulting cellulose acetates are less inflammable than the nitrates, but they are more brittle and more expensive.
• Anything that is brittle is not suitable as an enrichment of wood-work, unless it can be so placed as to be out of danger.
• The coarse and rather brittle fiber of this plant was exalted by enthusiasts into something nearly equal to silk.
• Presently she withdrew from it a thin and brittle object, examined it, and gravely placed it in her mouth.
• It is one of the poorest of trees for street planting, because it has a sprawling habit and weak brittle wood.
• With a peculiar uplifting of the brows which spoke a brittle humor, she looked at the floor as if selecting a place for the performance.
• The mask softened a little; a brittle thing quivering, but because it was so greatly needed it would not break.
• When melted and poured into water it forms thin brittle flakes, and in this condition is called granulated or mossy zinc.
• Cuttings from trees with pale or brown foliage, or with foliage tending to be brittle from lack of water soon lost their leaves.
• They lose their elasticity and become brittle or mealy, but large grains appear to be more subject to this fault than do the small ones.
• In old age, the hardest material preponderates; making the bones more brittle than in earlier life.
• Door of caring, the gentle trail left as a universe to announce the brittle thrust and restive eves of daytime shadow.
• A tree with a natural cavity is never selected, but one which has been dead just long enough to have become soft and brittle throughout.
• As soon as we got home she flew to the little box upstairs where she kept her treasures, and brought therefrom the dry and brittle wishbone.
• The Scythe is an emblem of time, which cuts the brittle thread of life and launches us into eternity.
• Quite instinctively, axe in hand, each of the weary three made for the dead wood and began to cut and break down the brittle boughs.
• Bismuth is a heavy, crystalline, brittle metal nearly the color of silver, but with a slightly rosy tint which distinguishes it from other metals.
• It was while he was thus engaged, in an unexplored part of the thicket, that he came upon a fallen tree, fairly brittle with resin.
• Perhaps I realized the need for quiet resolution rather than temper, which is ever too brittle a weapon to work well.
• The memory of a man named Dunbar came over him, and he wondered if he had died in the morning, when his bones were brittle and cold.
• The broad rounded head, often borne on three or more spreading stems, is formed of drooping graceful branches, ending in brittle twigs.
• Zinc has been found to be too brittle for the strain to which it is subjected, in such cases, by the expansion and contraction induced by changes of temperature.
• Divide dough into sheets, roll on bake-board, spread on cloth a short time and let dry, but not until too brittle to roll into long, narrow rolls.

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