brittle

• The false memories shattered like stale candy--brittle, and bitter to the taste. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 04 - April 1996
• Scientists have also discovered what the researchers call a brittle star city off the coast of New Zealand. —  Latest News
• It is extremely brittle, and looks more like dried, white, frothed sugar than any thing else. "] 18TH APRIL. —  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
• It is serrated and brittle, and on entering any object breaks short off. —  Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
• The edge of the shell was also brittle, and I broke it by bearing too heavily upon it. —  Tales of the Fish Patrol

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