(a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Example Sentences:
(1) This method ensures the good preservation of spatial relations between bone elements essential for studies of fossil bones, which are sometimes very brittle.
(2) Ultrastructural studies of Aeromonas hydrophila strain AH26 revealed two distinctive pilus types: "straight" pili appear as brittle, rod-like filaments, whereas "flexible" pili are supple and curvilinear.
(3) Three sibs, a boy and two girls, born to Moroccan consanguineous parents, were affected with a syndrome characterized by brittle hair, mental retardation, short stature, ataxia, and gonadal dysfunction.
(4) In this prospective study the incidence and severity of hypoglycaemia were evaluated in 10 type I brittle diabetic patients under conventional treatment (period A), then under chronic treatment with CSII for at least 1 year (period B: the first 3 months; period C: the last 3 months).
(5) Only few reports exist about the occurrence of brittle nails.
(6) Trichothiodystrophy (TTD) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by brittle hair with reduced sulfur content, ichthyosis, peculiar face, and mental and physical retardation.
(7) The hooves of biotin-deficient swine are weak, brittle, and often necrotic.
(8) The coterie around the prime minister brought their conflict addiction, their brittle tribalism and their self-reinforcing insularity into government.
(9) Nigeria's oil pipelines are battleground for brittle democracy Read more In addition Nigeria’s ethnic, geographic, and religious differences can prove explosive, and it’s unlikely that Buhari – a Muslim from northern Nigeria – will treat the southern Christian Niger Delta militants differently to the Islamic Boko Haram , who this week declared their allegiance to Isis.
(10) We present a young man with Mediterranean type glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus whose brittle course was characterized by recurrent bouts of hypoglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).
(11) Saudi Arabia had been vehemently opposed to Aoun’s nomination, fearing he will consolidate Iran’s influence on the brittle state, which has remained vulnerable state since the end of its destructive civil war 25 years ago.
(12) The glycemic control of 11 brittle diabetics is improved during the 5 days after a 24 hour connection with the AEP.
(13) One patient with brittle juvenile-onset diabetes had successful control before, during, and after cesarean section.
(14) Holland are favourites, primarily because of their inventive forward players – with Wesley Scheijder in refulgent form and brittle Arjen Robben and Robin Van Persie set to make a record two consecutive starts, the Uruguayan defence will surely be stretched ….
(15) Detection of low-sulfur brittle hair syndrome is also important for genetic counseling because the disease appears to be inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern.
(16) The tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome (TRPS) is a rare congenital disorder, characterized by (1) a peculiar and somewhat pear-shaped nose, (2) sparse and brittle scalp hair, and (3) radiographic evidence of cone-shaped epiphyses of the hands.
(17) No problems related to stent migration or brittleness have been encountered.
(18) This decrease in the SRS index has been explained in terms of the relative amounts of strain-hardened material produced as milling severity increased, resulting in an increasing resistance to deformation and thus an apparent increase in brittle behaviour as particle size decreased.
(19) Osteogenesis imperfecta (OGI) is a rare genetic disease which, as a result of a disorder in the formation of the organic stroma of the bone due to a defect in osteogenic function, induces brittle bones, whereby only weak forces bring about multiple, repeated pathological fractures.
(20) He is never going to outdo José Mourinho when it comes to confrontation, brittle one-liners and media positioning – the Chelsea manager is simply too well-practised – but his team reminded everyone here why they are such formidable opponents, and that is always the best way to win these arguments.
Toffee
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Toffy
Example Sentences:
(1) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
(2) Recently awarded best veggie blog by Vegetarian Living, her stuffed naan breads and toffee apple and peanut pudding are definitely on the to-eat list.
(3) 3.16pm BST Toffee-related advertisement break: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.12pm BST You'll notice this blog hasn't shut down yet.
(4) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
(5) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
(6) The Glazers must've expected that they were getting a wee, ginger, fledgling Ferguson; David Moyes surely imagined that the great day had come after years of stability and prudence at Goodison Park, frugally guarding the Toffees, he was finally to be given the reigns of the all-conquering devils.
(7) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
(8) • Meals from £6, Stockholmfoodtrucks.nu , or download the Streetkäk app Pärlans Konfektyr Watch the founders of this sweet shop in the trendy area of Sofo (South of Folkunggatan) on Södermalm making artisanal toffee and fudge.
(9) The 21-year-old’s fortunes on the pitch have mirrored that of his team as neither have been able to reproduce the standards of last season, when a fine campaign saw the Toffees finish fifth after being in contention for the Champions League for a long period.
(10) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
(11) I can’t sing for toffee, but one of my clients is a nervous, self-conscious lady and I discovered one day that she relaxes more if I sing to her while getting her washed and dressed.
(12) Tarashaj is understood to have coughed for the Everton doctors and agreed personal terms on a four-and-a-half year deal with Goodison Park suits, but will be loaned back to his current club for the rest of the season just as soon as he’s inked a contract with the Toffees.
(13) Having been pelted with toffees and then accused of killing South Korean football, manager Hong Myung-bo has decided now is the time to see himself out of the door marked ‘Do one’.
(14) There were so many retakes of the Supercalifragilistic scene that we got sick of the toffee apples we were supposed to be eating.
(15) Algeria have taken the opposite tack to South Korea's toffee pelters , the press lauding Les Verts as heroes and shuffling together a petition to persuade Vahid Halilhodzic to stay on as coach, as Rob Bleaney reports : The Algerian coach is set to leave his position after the tournament, having endured a long-running battle with some sections of the media.
(16) With its rich, bready, almost toffee-ish body and lemony, zesty top notes, it is a lager that even the most militant ale drinker would admit is a superb beer.
(17) Measurements were made of oral stereognosis, tongue-tip manipulation skill, control of tongue protrusion, and the time taken to chew and swallow a standardized piece of toffee and to clear it from the mouth.
(18) In Korea, you see, telling someone to "eat toffee" is considered a terrible insult.
(19) OK, he's writing a breaking World Cup story about toffee.
(20) 4.57pm BST Full-time Everton 0-0 West Brom Another draw for the Toffees.