Sentence examples for brittle like from inspiring English sources

Bones may be hard, but they're not brittle like chalk.

"He has been put to the test many times and was not brittle like iron.

I like the term brittle -- brittle like a biscuit; it can seem quite strong.

For all its insistence on exuberance, there is something brittle, like china, about Ponsot's style.

In comparison, conventional ceramics have relative fracture toughnesses in the 3 4 range and are therefore brittle like glass.

All this time, the tortilla has been curling and going brittle like an autumn leaf and the filling has been nosing up toward room temperature.

The features show predominantly ductile fracture with a few brittle-like regions (shown by arrows).

ppm, "brittle-like" behavior was observed at a hoop strain of 2.5%.

However, ductile cracking was observed in the former, while the latter showed brittle-like cracking.

Open image in new window Figure 14 SEM fractograph features of specimen A2 (low temperature) with a few brittle-like regions.

Therefore, larger tip angles and trapezoidal or triangular geometries promote graceful failure, and smaller tip angles and anti-trapezoidal geometries promote more brittle-like failure.