Sentence examples for the friable from inspiring English sources

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

Towne puts himself below the high ruin, witnessing its broken mouth and gaping eye, looking up through the holes in the friable stone to the sky above.

"Diary of a Bad Year" is not the first among J. M. Coetzee works of fiction to force readers to consider the friable boundary between fiction and nonfiction.

They must have been putting something in my food one of the coarse brown powders easily attainable at any Chinese herbalist's shop, the ground horn of the rhinoceros or the friable bones of the tiger infused in alcohol.

Deborah duly turned up laden with three sacks of the finest leaf mould I have ever seen, with the friable crumb of top-class compost and a bag of preserves.

"I had my own favourite tools... an orange stick, possibly a very fine knitting needle... and a jar of cosmetic face cream... for gently coaxing the dirt out of the crevices without harming the friable ivory," she wrote.

Continuous solvation-crystallization process makes the plaster layer, especially the interface region between the plaster and the support friable, which damages the adhesion between them and thus causes detachment.

The least friable of the CC, the CV, CK, and CO chondrites, have average CRE ages that fall around approximately 13, 23, and 22 Myr, respectively.

Finally, the CI and CM chondrites, some of the most friable chondrites, show the youngest CRE ages, with averages of approximately 1.8 and 2.8 Myr, respectively.

A resin that has a quantity larger than 80% of the inorganic phase, is more susceptible to compromise of its mechanical and physical properties, depending on the shape, size, chemical composition and distribution of the particles, making the material friable and giving it a rough surface [9], which potentiates biofilm retention [18, 19, 21] and consequently gingival inflammation [7, 17].

Previously we have drawn attention to the implications of the chemically friable nature of DNA under physiological conditions [18] and subsequently described genomic instability as a stochastic epigenetic phenotypic transition between attractors, essentially specific patterns of gene products active in the cell, representing phenotype [19].