frangible

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

You know how flexible, frangible and febrile language is; you recognise it as both combatant and friend.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013

They fret in frustrated juxtaposition, kept from an explosive embrace by a frangible barrier of chemical propriety.

From Time Magazine Archive

There will be a strong transfusion from Britain, a wad of adaptations, a spare and frangible offering of original work, and a lot of music.

From Time Magazine Archive

And he rejected the claim that diamonds cannot be smashed with a hammer: in recent times, every diamond tested had proved to be frangible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton