Sentence examples for brittle thread from inspiring English sources

You can test this by dropping a bit of the melted sugar into a glass of cold water, where it should form a hard, brittle thread that cracks.

As she and the burdened Stefan are tested more and more, the brittle threads that hold the family together begin to fray.

The syrup should have formed hard, brittle threads that crack when bent (hence "hard-crack").

Without stirring, heat to 300 °F (149 °C) to 310 °F (154 °C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads.

If the pulling reveals a syrup that forms a hard thread that isn't brittle, then it's ready.

Quasicrystals are exceptionally brittle.

Enforced stability is brittle.

It could prove brittle.

But relations are brittle.

BANKS are brittle institutions.

But redemption is brittle.