Both have the same thin black brittle shell, and appear to be naturally dry unlike most fruits.

I held it in both hands and brought my thumbs down against the brittle shell.

Because the fonio grains are so small, it is difficult to remove the brittle outer shell.

On rare occasions, these frogs will eat water snails and brittle shells.

The brittle shell of his self-confidence had been shattered by this unexpected setback, and he was very tired.

I carried Louis's brittle shell of a corpse down into the museum.

He didn't dare crunch down on its brittle shell, for fear of being heard, so he had to swallow it whole.

She had been there all along, trapped inside that brittle shell, waiting to be released.

The eggs are white with a leathery-like covering rather than a brittle shell.

They are found - each in a thin, brittle shell - inside the pine cone.