Sentence examples for friable texture from inspiring English sources

(Ancient shipwrecks have the soft, friable texture of feta cheese, so you can't just pick them up and carry them).

This type of cheese contained high fat and salt with friable texture.

This reduction in plasticity gives the soil lime mixtures a more friable texture making the soil more amenable to movement and manipulation with field equipment.

All you really need to know about shortbread is in the name: according to Laura Mason and Catherine Brown's methodically researched encyclopedia The Taste of Britain, "short" has been used to describe a "friable, brittle, crumbling texture" since medieval times.

Comparatively the callus was friable, embryogenic and creamy white in texture than those from B5 and N6 medium that produced brown and slimy callus.

The callus texture from compact to friable, and dry to succulent varied depending upon the light spectrum it was exposed (Fig. 1c j) Newly proliferated calli under light spectra CW and 9B showed light pink and purple color, respectively, while callus under 9IR developed deep golden color.

All the phenotypes were friable but some differences in color and texture were identified.

Or sometimes I'll mix one of those with some quinoa or couscous because they're tender and friable on the tongue, and the two textures bounce off each other.

The samples are very friable with a roughly laminated to stromatolitic to porous, clotted texture (Fig. 2b).

"I immerse in the crowd, like a grain of sand in the friable sands," she once said.

There are patches of friable masonry and peeling plaster so beautifully worked that the paint tangibly imitates the exact textures it describes.