breakable
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Five of them have had their localisers retrofitted with breakable material, while another will be retrofitted next year, Seoul's transport ministry told AFP.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
But just remember to keep anything breakable out of arm and leg reach.
From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025
Water in hot springs can “cause severe or fatal burns,” the park states, and scalding water underlies “most of the thin, breakable crust around hot springs.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024
Publishing in Polymer Chemistry, they made a series of polymer gels with breakable bonds incorporated into different parts of the structure, and tested whether the properties changed after the gel was degraded and reformed.
From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023
And you’d be right, because being breakable has nothing to do with toughness.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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