brittle

Example Sentences

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The old revolutionary story has grown brittle, feeble.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

We move in a familiar loop: outrage at dysfunction, ritualized critique, then a quiet hope that the same brittle systems will somehow stabilize themselves when the stakes get high.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Conservator Jonathan Carr said the Thetford find was made "from extremely thin sheets of metal which have become extremely brittle after 2,000 years in the ground".

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

Immediately, she wished she had not been so direct, for Lady Constance’s expression looked suddenly brittle, like a soft bread roll gone stale and hard.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood