Sentence examples for brittle from inspiring English sources

Set aside to cool and harden, then chop half the brittle into roughly 1cm pieces (keep the rest in an airtight container as a nibble).

At the end of another week of cognitive dissonance for the richest, loudest, most chasteningly brittle league in the world, there must be a few more interesting conversations to be had.

The zeitgeisty wallop comes in the words, which derive from a modern musician's insecurities but say so much about our brittle and uncertain times.

All over Europe, and particularly in central and southern Europe, the Kremlin is making inroads at a time when relations between Russia and the west are at their most tense and brittle in the post-communist era.

"No, don't do that - I'll call you," he replies with a brittle smile.

The atmosphere was made even more brittle by the publication in France of images of the prophet in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

They kept making chances but that high-pressing backline still looked as brittle as a four-day old pretzel.

The op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal reflects Anwar's worldview of tolerance and inclusivity at a time when religious sentiments in Malaysia are becoming increasingly brittle.

But the result in practice is almost always over-engineering: the component costs more to develop, the suspected additional use rarely materialises, when it does materialise it has requirements that don't quite match the actual implementation, and the component as a whole is more brittle, less comprehensible to successive developers and more difficult to maintain.

The Mission branch has the added bonus of its "creamery" a few doors down: all ice-creams made in small batches, with slurpable flavours such as malted vanilla with peanut brittle, Sonoma honey and lavender, and brown sugar with ginger caramel swirl.

There is, or was, an exhilaration to their brittle mood of ecstasy and hysteria.