[
UK
/bɹˈɪkəl/
]
[ US /ˈbɹɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
brittle bones
`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal
glass is brittle
How To Use brickle In A Sentence
- Peppermint buttons and white-chocolate-covered pretzel sticks and turtles and brickle and more delicious handmades line the table, and students are encouraged begged, even to partake. Let Me Eat Cake
- Sinter type fastigiate - handle drills: Use for drilling and brickle material such as glass, ceramics etc.
- Once brickle-ified, it must be trimmed and allowed to cool before Ms. Zeldin can flip it and coat it on both sides with a layer of chocolate and chopped macadamia nuts. Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
- Laser shaping technology on hard and brickle inorganic materials is one of the most promising fields.
- Montgomery (father of Elizabeth from "Bewitched", and a decorated PT boat Captain himself during the conflict) delivers a remarkably human, unmannered performance as the embattled but stoic Brickley, while the Duke cements his own growing stardom with a charismatic turn as Ryan. John Farr: For Memorial Day, the Best War Movies Ever
- We were greeted by a table filled with all sorts of goodies: sweet and sour chicken, cocktail meatballs, mandelbrot, Max's cookies named for Sam's mom -- they were her favorite, buttermilk kugel, and brickle cake. Archive 2006-07-01
- A very nicely handled narrative strand brings brick-expert Novu from bricky Jericho to brickless Etxelur, brought out as a slave of a tubercular old trader called Chona. Stephen Baxter, Stone Spring (2010)
- Maybe you can persuade Charlie Brickley, a < i > fair sort of dropkicker, to quit coaching Hopkins, and kick a few goals for old Bannister! T. Haviland Hicks Senior
- I knowe the brickle state, that fortune hath no staie, all rashe her giftes, Fortune blind doeth kepe no state, her stone doth roule, as floodes now flowe, floodes also ebbe. A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
- Her nascent brand, East Hampton Edibles, sells "butter brickle," a confection of crunchy caramel, chocolate and macadamia nuts available at local stores like Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton and the Elegant Setting in Southampton. Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces