breakable

Example Sentences

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International aviation safety guidelines state that such navigation structures should be made of frangible, or breakable, material -- a recommendation not followed at the Muan airport.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

They were given practical guidance, such as suggesting they move breakable items and knives to safe places.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

Thermal formations can be very dangerous, with water in hot springs being able to “cause severe or fatal burns” and scalding water underlying “most of the thin, breakable crust around hot springs.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2023

Publishing in Polymer Chemistry, they made a series of polymer gels with breakable bonds incorporated into different parts of the structure, and tested whether the properties changed after the gel was degraded and reformed.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023

The warmth of dark energies that drew me to The Mecca, that drew out Prince Jones, the warmth of our particular world, is beautiful, no matter how brief and breakable.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates