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.
This raises questions of embrittlement, and has had to be checked carefully before extending licences. Safety of nuclear power reactors
_Pussy willow, Glaucous willow_ 40, 41, 171 falcata, Pursh _Black willow_ 42 fragilis, L. _Crack willow, Brittle willow_ 43-45 nigra, Marsh. Handbook of the Trees of New England
England were rocked back, their famously brittle confidence rattled again. Times, Sunday Times
The pizza base retains its crispness without becoming brittle.
But explorers would not eat prissy little candy canes and peanut brittle when they could tear into a hamburger, would they?
When steel is made very hot, and suddenly immerged in very cold water, and moved about in it, the surface of the steel becomes cooled first, and thus producing a kind of case or arch over the internal part, prevents that internal part from contracting quite so much as it otherwise would do, whence it becomes brittler and harder, like the glass-drops called Prince Rupert's drops, which are made by dropping melted glass into cold water. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
Miner is spot-on, down to her brittle smile and overeager voice.
I can see her now, fingering her brittle bangs, blinking so fast that this microscopist she's found might be alarmed if he were to look at her, but he has not done much of that; instead he peers at the monitor, uses a sterling accessory to show her the worms. Florida
These treats, though hard, are bendier than they are brittle and likely to crumble when chomped down on. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell.
Aging US reactors are plagued with the embrittlement of key interior metal components which threaten their continued safety; Harvey Wasserman: Obama's Stimulus Money Must Not Be Wasted on Nuke Reactors
But this brittle is still a hit and the batch I shared with my colleagues was gone in five minutes. Dr Pepper and peanuts | Homesick Texan
Centralizing security responsibilities has the downside of making our security more brittle, by instituting a commonality of approach and a uniformity of thinking.
It broke sharply and satisfyingly, like good peanut brittle.
This sort of abuse will break a too brittle blade or loosen a flimsy blade pivot, but it stood up to this challenge before shaving off more ribbons of paper as cleanly as it had at the beginning.
This is because taking it for too long can have the paradoxical effect of making bones more brittle. Times, Sunday Times
Last week Gunter, now director of the Reactor Oversight Program of the organization Beyond Nuclear, said the NRC re-licensing program is "blind to how these machines are breaking apart at the molecular level … they embrittle, crack and corrode. CounterPunch
When the reduction of aluminic oxide by carbon is conducted without the addition of copper, a brittle product is obtained that behaves in many respects like pig iron as it comes from the blast furnace. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
The supplements are often swallowed to ward off or control brittle bone disease osteoporosis. The Sun
And the list is; reactor vessel integrity which as you probably realise now is reactor vessel embrittlement, pressurised water sump pump performance, we'll look at that.
But the great pressure to which the sheets are subjected makes the alloy very brittle, so that it has to be softened or "annealed," as it is called, by being heated red-hot in very large ovens before each re-rolling. The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 24, April 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
On ‘Dreamers,’ the first syllable Frost sings sounds so brittle and fragile it seems about to shatter into ice crystals at any moment.
There is a falcon hood - the brown leather dome, crowned with a tuft of feathers, is brittle like a little skull - and an envelope contains a watch.
As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle.
Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle. Times, Sunday Times
He liked the way the amplifier and the turntable and the speakers were all separate, and the archaic brittleness of the grey cables that connected them all.
Sulfur is particularly aggressive in that it diffuses more rapidly and embrittles more severely than does oxygen.
And the list is; reactor vessel integrity which as you probably realise now is reactor vessel embrittlement, pressurised water sump pump performance, we'll look at that.
So much so that, in meeting her, an edge of brittle insecurity appears faintly visible beneath her ageless face and coolly cordial manner.
It has the same look and taste as our traditional Peanut Brittle - you won't be able to tell the difference!
A good source of biotin, avocados help to prevent dry skin and brittle hair and nails.
We've recently conducted several pilot studies in the Marcellus and other North American shales that have demonstrated how we can help our clients determine reservoir rock properties, such as brittleness and natural fracture networks, and help predict the geometry of hydraulically induced fractures, both of which are critical to well planning, stimulation and completion. ION Announces Multi-Client Seismic Survey in Marcellus Shale - Yahoo! Finance
The bell's brittle sound fractured the night's stillness. Titanic - Destination disaster
Root-filled teeth are more brittle than live ones and in some cases your dentist may suggest placing a crown on the tooth to protect what remains of the tooth structure.
The stress-strain relationship curve of the cement soil tends to soften, with an obvious peak point, it being mainly in a brittle failure state.
The crude wax is yellow or dirty green, brittle and very hard. E For Additives
But while cast iron is strong, it is also brittle. Times, Sunday Times
Acrylic paints, like oil paints that are rich in medium, become soft and vulnerable to damage and dirt retention at high temperatures and humidities or brittle and friable at low temperatures.
You have to navigate through minefields of homemade fudge, baked hams, office peanut brittle, holiday eggnog, hot toddies, smoked cheese logs and platoons of armed and dangerous gingerbread men.
The numbers are decreasing with every passing year, their writing and painting are gradually fading out, their pages have become fragile and brittle.
They were cooked until the white but not the yolk was set, allowing me to indulge in my favourite Sunday pastime of dipping the brittle, breadstick-like crust into the pool of rich, runny yellowness spreading over my plate.
Other common plants are brittlebush, California sagebrush, several wildflowers in the aster family, and a wild four-o'clock.
It has further been shown that the propagating distance of the deformation front depends on the brittle integrated strength and buoyancy force of the overriding plate, as well as the amount of migration of the trench.
The high temperature treatment effaces the strains, coalesces the sulphide films in the ferrite which embrittle the steel and produces homogenity by rapid diffusion.
I always put a pinch of baking soda in brittles or I find them tooth-breakingly unpleasant. Peanut butter crispy bars | smitten kitchen
The supplements are often swallowed to ward off or control brittle bone disease osteoporosis. The Sun
In Caketown, these include a brittle suburbanite Bruce calls The Matriarch, who has barricaded herself into her house out of fear of a deadly airborne virus.
The brittle texture of peanut brittle is usually a turn off to me. Dr Pepper and peanuts | Homesick Texan
England were rocked back, their famously brittle confidence rattled again. Times, Sunday Times
Oxygen is able to embrittle beryllium, but there is no quantitative measure of the effect.
You'll be rewarded with deep flavor and candy that sets up perfectly every time, as in the case of our classic buttery almond toffee and our pretty cashew brittle.
For instance, some steels become brittle, and alloys which resist embrittlement must be used in nuclear reactors. Research reactors
In this case chemical agents penetrate the plastic, causing swelling, softening, charring, crazing, delamination, blistering, embrittlement, discoloration, dissolving, and ultimate failure.
The wood is very brittle and branches often split when being pruned. The Sun
This paper provides the first exhaustive data set on the brittle structural architecture of the Lanterman Fault.
Constant stress has made our nerves brittle.
Rather than drawing brittle lines of demarcation between organized men and other competitive labor sources, they attempted to distance themselves from potential challenges with a certain malleability. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
Acrylic paints become soft and vulnerable to damage and dirt retention at high temperatures and humidities or brittle and friable at low temperatures.
This group has a high doctor-patient contact rate but also includes a proportion of patients with unstable or brittle asthma.
They were huge and brittle-looking, creating a chequerboard effect against the endless white of the sand.
Confidence remains brittle in the extreme, but the underlying picture is steadily improving. Times, Sunday Times
Arsenic has two allotropes, yellow arsenic and metallic arsenic, which is brittle.
If the backsaw had been made as hard as the other saws, it likely would have broken in use, since, as noted before, the teeth were too brittle to set as it is.
The mineral is brittle with a conchoidal to uneven fracture.
Ultraviolet rays can burn the hair's cuticle, or outer layer, leaving it dry and brittle; they also can damage pigment and reduce hair's strength and elasticity.
India's batting is more brittle than is imagined and that may offer opportunities for England to get a foothold in the series. Times, Sunday Times
Then he began to peel back the brittle newspapers, Father Tim saw that the date on the Mitford Muse was 1952.
Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand. The Aeneid of Virgil
There was a brittleness to his tone.
One of the reasons computer programs are so brittle is that everything is digital, so a single bit flip could massively change a value. October | 2005 | Impromptus
As it was fractured before it left the bell tower and was gently lowered, it is likely the brittle metal broke in the sudden change of temperature from scorching heat to cold as the flames were doused with water.
If McRae's voice has a brittle edge, the phrasing is imperious.
The melamine / acrylic binder is also more brittle than other binder resins we have used.
The encyclopedia tells us that nickel obtained its name because the copper and silver miners in Saxony found that ore containing this substance gave them a great deal of trouble and when smelted produced a brittle, unfamiliar product which they called kupfernickel after old Nick and his mischievous gnomes and when a man named Cronsted isolated nickel itself in 1751, he applied the name of kupfernickel or copper nickel -- since abbreviated to nickel, the word which we use today. Some Responsibilities Of International Business
Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle. Times, Sunday Times
To this end, riveted sections, known as crack arresters, were incorporated in some of the wartime ships so that, if a brittle failure did occur, it would not propagate completely through the structure.
Though he was now touched by the first papery brittleness of old age, his shoulders were still broad, his biceps showed bulges, his posture was mostly erect, and he seemed relaxed.
The latter was tapping her old, brittle foot impatiently against the cold marble of the palace floor.
Too much or too little ferrite can make the steel brittle, weak or otherwise unsuitable for use in automobiles. Metal Firms Seek Weight Loss
The paint was brittle with age.
Because hydrogen can penetrate and embrittle some metals and alloys, developing standards for using existing pipelines, storage tanks, pumps and delivery systems is an essential first step before the elemental gas can be considered as a viable fuel for widespread use. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Mirror shots abound as the characters' narcissism is exposed and the brittleness of appearances scrutinised.
Potts nipped away, unsleeved a brittle record, Beethoven, something traditional, and set the adagio movement from the seventh into slow, crackling motion.
In high doses, vitamin A can cause brittle nails, hair loss, headaches and liver damage.
Sometimes it takes just one small blunder to shred the brittle bonds that hold a social circle together. Times, Sunday Times
Scientists at this week's sessions will hear about the discovery of what the researchers call a brittle star city off the coast of New Zealand. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
Consequently, the material is embrittled by impurity segregation to interfacial boundaries.
We use a special epoxy developed by 3M which is more ductile (less brittle) which optimizes performance when subject to a vibrating load.
The boys tended to make the men peevish and sarcastic, the girls made Emma brittle and shrewish.
The high vanadium steel is somewhat brittle, but is excellent for cutting very abrasive materials.
The five-year-old was born with a rare condition that means her bones are incredibly brittle, making her as fragile as a china doll. The Sun
Romping by a half-iced pond, they break through the brittle ice and come home muddy, wet-mittened, and whining.
The wind rustles the brittle-bush and whispers its way though the clustered needles of saguaros, the hallmark cactus of the Sonoran Desert.
An expressive voice, yes, but here it seemed so brittle. Times, Sunday Times
It is the "ever-closer union" that sceptics claim will yield a brittle political economy, Germanic and dirigiste at the centre, Latin and rebellious at the fringe. The hesitant saviour: how Germany bestrides Europe once again
The franc-tireur in charge of the wine-bin watches us complaisantly from his counter where he sits flanked by flasks of Hoboken chianti and a case of brittle cigars. Shandygaff
Eventually the end of the thin brittle primine breaks like an eggshell and the secundine falls out. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Cut healthy sprigs during dry weather and hang them in a cool, dry place until the leaves become brittle. The Sun
Lou said … hey no problems, i'd be pleased to help if i can: o) i spent several years trying to convince my previous diabetic team to let me have one and then gave up, because basically they said I was non compliant (which I wasn't I just had "labile" diabetes I think that used to be called 'brittle') so it was too expensive to basically 'waste' on me. Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes
A fantasy world filled with lollipops, peanut brittle, and candy canes, where even the pitfalls are delicious and made of things like molasses and gumdrops.
For brittle world full soone dooth faile, and death dooth strike vnwares. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
As you get older your bones become increasingly brittle.
But while cast iron is strong, it is also brittle. Times, Sunday Times
Poets, popularly, are delicate petals, emotionally brittle and easily roused.
The ductile structures show a progressive evolution into semi-ductile and brittle deformation.
In dry, open woodlands, thickets, and roadsides, from August to October, we find the dainty White Wood Aster (_A. divaricatus_) -- _A. corymbosus_ of Gray -- its brittle zig-zag stem two feet high or less, branching at the top, and repeatedly forked where loose clusters of flower-heads spread in a broad, rather flat corymb. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Without the cancellous bone our bones would be very brittle. We��re Born With 270 Bones. As Adults We Have 206
Moisture under an asphalt built-up or modified bitumen roof system will leach plasticizing oils out of the membrane, making it prematurely brittle.
It is extremely important that the salts be free of all traces of sulfur, so that the work does not become embrittled.
The output for these furnaces was pig iron, a coarse and brittle product that could be used only for casting crude heavy items such as kettles, stove plates, and firebacks.
Especially important for avoidance of osteoporosis (brittle bones ) in middle age. Alternative Health Care for Women
Bicarbonate of soda, the mild alkali which is added to some cakes and biscuits and peanut brittle, promotes browning.
It has a delicious malty aroma with hints of heather and honey and rich, sweet, nutty undertones like sugared almonds or peanut brittle.
a brittle and calculating woman
There you can find tons of peanut brittle, peanut butter pie - even peanut soup.
Ageing brain corals, brittle firecorals and delicate seafans are easily dislodged from their anchorages by the fierce breakers.
The orchestra was brittle in tone.
Bi is a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals. Bi « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts
A serious embrittlement sometimes arises after prolonged treatment owing to the formation of cementitic films at the ferrite boundaries.
It echoed through her like great repeated gusts of wintry wind scattering the mouldiest leaves, revealing the naked brittle ground beneath. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Hard materials tend to be very brittle, take glass for instance.
The texture becomes brittle rather than hard, so the honeycomb literally melts in your mouth. Times, Sunday Times
By contrast, business intelligence and action lag behind the current business activity if business processes are ingrained in rigid and brittle software systems.
They represented one of the most fruitful and imaginative local jazz partnerships of the 1960s - a blend of bop's brittle urgency, swing's broad communicativeness and some of the trumpet/sax countermelodic spontaneity of Chet Baker's and Gerry Mulligan's partnership.
The idea that the teeth function in fighting is not supported however by the fact that the teeth are brittle and easily broken, and only shallowly rooted in the socket and unsuited for withstanding large leverage forces (Macdonald 1993, Macdonald et al. 1993). The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again
The front third of the bullet is hollow, and the rear two-thirds is filled by a brittle copper-tin alloy instead of lead. Gun Geezer Makes Muscatel* Mist
‘I still do not like it,’ he said, his voice turned brittle now.
Following a healthy lifestyle throughout life is the best way to delay the onset of osteoporosis, and slow the rate at which your bones become brittle.
The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle.
How to build strong bones One in three women and one in 12 men suffer from the brittle bone disease osteoporosis at some time in their lives. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle. Times, Sunday Times
These flexural waves locally increase the curvature in the rod and we argue that this counter-intuitive mechanism is responsible for the fragmentation of brittle rods under bending. Public Rambling
An explanation of the experimental results may be given by the decohesion theory hydrogen embrittlement.
She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light, in the morning of the world, and she is the one woman of all women to me. CHAPTER XXXI
In amounts greater than 0.05%, there can be a tendency for the steel to become embrittled during thermal stress relief treatments. CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries
Finally he spoke over his shoulder with a voice sharp and brittle. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The most recent example is an application by MacLeod Estates to construct an 80 seater restaurant and exhibition centre at Glenbrittle.
Metallic thorium is brittle and almost infusible; the powder takes a metallic luster under pressure, is permanent in the air at temperatures up to 120°, takes fire below a red heat either in air or oxygen, and burns with a dazzling luster, leaving Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle. Times, Sunday Times
The old nuke power plants are rusting, becoming more and more embrittled, and parts that have lasted for 30+ years (and were designed to last only 20) are failing left and right. Nuclear Power Kills; here's how. (16 dirty nuclear secrets.)
But he contends there is a quote, "brittleness" about her that could doom her in the general election. CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006
Other songs recall Joy Division and Depeche Mode, as his brittle voice tiptoes to center stage with only a spare backing of guitars and drum loops.
Ice slides are nothing to them, and when you fall, as you inevitably must, because all the things you grab hold of are either rotten, or as brittle as Salviati glass-ware vases, you hurt yourself in no end of places, on those aforesaid cut amomum stumps. Travels in West Africa
Brittle deformation is preserved as the occurrence of fractures within quartz grains that have been healed by authigenic quartz and by cataclastic flow of fragmented feldspar grains.
The marrow is still there, but what's around it is brittle and splintered. Fourfour:
He and Kat made peanut brittle and he promptly squirmed off Karl's lap to get him a piece.
Upon a coffeecupful of finely powdered sugar pour just enough lemon juice to dissolve it, and boil it to the consistency of thick syrup, and so that it appears brittle when dropped in cold water. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
The cementite, although adding to the tensile strength, is very brittle and the strength of the pearlite is the combination of the ferrite and cementite. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle.
The piddock has a thin, brittle shell that is similar in shape and sculpturing on both sides.
However, it is very brittle and difficult to rework, and therefore not generally used to cast statues.
S.-Soviet Cold War, symbols of ideological purity turned brittle.
At ordinary temperatures ebonite is hard and brittle and breaks with a well-marked conchoidal fracture. On Laboratory Arts
One wooden jetty crept out over the water on brittle insect legs.
She gave a brittle laugh.
These are predominantly ductile structures that were overprinted by more brittle structures at later stages.
Thus this fault zone also appears to have a ductile history with a brittle overprint.
Cast iron is very versatile, as it can be poured into moulds when molten and cast into complicated shapes, but is very brittle.
In creep - brittle materials, the crack tip and creep zone boundary propagate at comparable rates.
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Upon further heating, the sucrose forms hydroxymethyl furfural, which polymerizes into a the brown pigments that give color and flavor to the brittle.
His religious faith, which had always been a rationalistic, brittle thing, simply broke apart.
Galia Traub (WPI '09) contrasts the ECPD definition to Kulak's implications that engineering is about "static processes and brittle team structures that tend to discourage change.
Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies.
The more brittle a finish after it cures, no matter how hard, the easier it will scratch and therefore the easier it will be able to rub using fine abrasives.
glass is brittle
The result was a sweaty medley, harsh and brittle on the surface, but cheesy and rotten underneath.
Acrylic paints, like oil paints that are rich in medium, become soft and vulnerable to damage and dirt retention at high temperatures and humidities or brittle and friable at low temperatures.
'Not at all,' she said in a brittle voice, avoiding his eye.
After the first application, my dry and brittle mane felt much stronger and healthier. The Sun
Any friendship between these two 'strongmen' looks brittle and shortlived. Times, Sunday Times
She had been green and whippy, but now she could feel the brittleness of age creeping in and the breakability that came with it. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Shrimp, anemones, and brittle stars dominate, but their numbers are few, their biomass small.
The mineral is brittle with a conchoidal to uneven fracture.
The Earth's crust, as with many planetary crusts, is brittle and breaks relatively easily.
Lightbulb sea squirts, common brittlestars, featherstars of various colours, and northern prawns survey diving passers-by from their rock crevices and ledges.
It's not brittle facticity that Davis is after but more supple conceptions of plausibility and verisimilitude that speak to how a film stretches evidence to provoke, arouse, and speak to larger historical truths.
Their confidence looks brittle and they could struggle again today at Selhurst Park. The Sun
She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light before the sun ... CHAPTER X
O'Toole's clear blue eyes and brittle voice flood with so much anguish and pain that even Pitt's fixed pout and the awful lines cannot make a laughable travesty of the scene.
For the pumpkin seed brittle, in a small covered saucepan, bring the sugar and water to a boil.
Between the viaduct and the seafront you crush the brittle flowers underfoot.
Numerous fissure veins and fracture planes were present that contained brittle arsenical copper and chalcocite.
However, their arms are very highly forked and branched, and even more flexible than those of brittle stars.
However, the rubbery material was brittle and broke too easily.
Fiberglass is relatively brittle but can be bent around large-diameter curves.
When melted and poured into water it forms thin brittle flakes, and in this condition is called granulated or mossy zinc. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
Underfoot irregular, pebbles lay like aggregate and chips of stone protruded from the compacted ground, as desiccated and brittle as human bone.
When harvesting, always cut rather than pull peppers from the plant so you don't break their brittle branches.
The supplements are often swallowed to ward off or control brittle bone disease osteoporosis. The Sun

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