brittle

Example Sentences

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Among the archives are brittle and faded hand-drawn field maps plus more than 150,000 soil and rock samples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Running her hand through her brittle white hair, she mimed heating water on a gas stove to wash herself in the cold mornings.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 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

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

The face one shows him he invariably reflects back at one, creating the illusion of warmth and depth when in fact he is brittle and shallow as a mirror.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt