Sample Sentences forfrangible (editor-reviewed)
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Airport runways use frangible light fixtures that break away harmlessly if struck by an aircraft, preventing serious damage.frangible = easily broken or separated
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The museum stores all frangible articles in locked showcases.frangible = easily broken
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Later, it had expanded to specialize in the nationwide express delivery of emergency medical supplies, refrigerated or otherwise delicately preserved blood and tissue samples, as well as expensive and frangible scientific instruments. (source)frangible = fragile or easily broken
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The preordained frangibility of the hymen: the presupposed intangibility of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the selfabbreviating relaxation of the thing done;† (source)
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Near the southern tip of South America, where the wind sweeps the land like "the broom of God"—'Vaescoba de Dios, " as the locals say-I'd scaled a frightening, mile-high spike of vertical and overhanging granite called Cerro Torre; buffeted by hundred-knot winds, plastered with frangible atmospheric time, it was once (though no longer) thought to be the world's hardest mountain.† (source)
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