friable

Example Sentences

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But one piece of the more concerning friable asbestos - which can be easily crushed into a powder - was found at a public park in suburb Surry Hills.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024

“Dawson’s Fall” asks what truth means in an era when conviction matters more, and Roxana Robinson’s answer — that morality is friable — should make us sit up and tremble.

From New York Times • May 31, 2019

Early Americans drained these swamps to acquire civilization’s most essential resource: tillable land with friable soil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2016

Soil: Choose a potting mix that is friable and drains quickly, such as a "cactus mix."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2016

Now there were open fields among the lakes and forests, fields with the crumbly friable soil potatoes love.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck