brittle

How To Use brittle In A Sentence

• For years some doctors and nutritionists have touted biotin, a B-complex vitamin, for treating dry skin and brittle hair and nails.
• Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
• Previous workers have attributed these differences to changes in rheology, i.e. brittle faulting in sandstones v. more ductile folding and faulting in dolostones.
• The ledge was brittle, and would be easily broken.
• The organic materials in grounds, gilding, paint films, and varnishes become embrittled with age and can no longer flex to accommodate movement in the support.
• Every second is stuffed with bright, brittle melodies that make you feel as if you've done too many turns on a fairground waltzer.
• With a little planning and preventive measures, you can avoid the common sun and surf damage of faded colour, fragile, brittle or dry hair and yucky split ends.
• Larkham was in his element in his country's victory over Romania as he constantly probed for breaks against a brittle defence.
• And really, the first few bites of peanut brittle, frosted cookies, etc., are always the best.
• Dry, brittle hair and split ends were the unfortunate consequence of years of dyeing it peroxide blond.