He seemed to have himself in hand but his voice was high and brittle.

She turned toward the General, her brown eyes suddenly brittle.

Yet they were brittle with a kind of fear too.

He pulled at the body with his other hand and felt brittle hair.

Her face might have been made of glass, it looked so brittle.

For its weight it is quite strong but can be brittle.

Eventually they could become brittle with age, but this might take some years.

But he might be wrong, and materials had been known to become brittle after years in space.

Less brittle than she chose to think of American police.

Corner case, a common area in which systems are brittle.

She gave him the brittle smile again and walked away.

They'd looked brittle enough yesterday and at 40 below they could break.

A staff member says everyone in the office seems especially brittle and on edge.

Her face had the dry, brittle look of something left too long in the sun.

Her voice turned brittle, and she sat very straight on the bed.

I held her gently, as though she was brittle and might break.

I am trying to find or make a metal that is very hard, but not brittle.

The ones lying on the ground were too brittle and old, they found.

When someone takes a step, the brittle hip may break.

Sometimes it is the strongest who are the most brittle.

There are over 2,000 species of brittle stars living today.

The hair that remains may be very dry or brittle.

Listening to the brittle edge on her voice at the moment was bad enough.

They were thick, too, and seemed brittle, though he did not test that.

Thus in technical terms, a material can be both brittle and strong.

Dyckia 'Brittle Star'

In 1993, 20th Century Fox optioned his novel 'Brittle Innings' for a film and bought the rights altogether in 1995 .

Baba's Butter Pecan Brittle- Uses butter pecan brittle bits.