friable

Example Sentences

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“Goodnight Nobody,” Rachel Bonds’s restless, friable, finely acted play at the McCarter Theater here sometimes manages to distrupt old tropes, mostly because it feels like two shows carpentered together, with rough joints.

From New York Times

The vast majority of fusion procedures are performed on patients with one or more degenerated disks, disks that are worn out, dehydrated, stiff and friable.

From New York Times

In some places, the limestone was so friable that you brushed a finger against it and it ran like sand through an hourglass.

From The New Yorker

He notes how memory is slippery and friable.

From New York Times

Or sometimes I’ll mix one of those with some quinoa or couscous because they’re tender and friable on the tongue, and the two textures bounce off each other.

From New York Times