frangible

Example sentences from the Web for frangible

• A frangible plate D closes the end of barrel A, but blows out above a certain pressure to avoid bursting strain in the gun.

  The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.|Edward W. Byrn

• Frangible things are of less value than things that are infrangible.

  The World's Great Sermons, Volume 6: H. W. Beecher to Punshon|Various

• The women bore crockery and other frangible articles, and helped Fessenden's drive the cow.

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864|Various

• Not a branch falls—the autumn blasts brought down all that was frangible.

  Of Walks and Walking Tours|Arnold Haultain