breakable

Example Sentences

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Five of them have had their localisers retrofitted with breakable material, while another will be retrofitted next year, Seoul's transport ministry told AFP.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

But just remember to keep anything breakable out of arm and leg reach.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 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

From the outside, her house was large and fancy, much bigger than ours, and I was sure it was furnished with many breakable objects.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine