Brittle in a sentence as a noun

You don't need to dig far to find similar brittle examples.

It's sort of like having VHS tapes that are brittle: you keep the data by copying them over and over again.

* Network hiring can make company cultures cliquish and, worse, brittle.

* The user workflow is brittle, especially given how few view controllers there are, here.

Let me explain: if you're going to rely on something as brittle and unreliable as the DOM for your extension, expect it to break.

Existing options for controlling first-party inboxes and outgoing email with a web application rely on brittle shell scripts and Deep Magick.

Brittle in a sentence as an adjective

Adult life is messy and complicated-- sick parents become more common, job demands fluctuate-- and synchronous education is just brittle.

The only difference is that this web application supposedly runs on 'all devices' except that every web application is quite brittle once you try to actually run it on all devices.

The good thing about humans is they have very well-written exception handlers built in!Such a program is likely to be brittle and could fail unexpectedly requiring human intervention.

Mostly what I find in this generation of non-believer is not reflective, self-conscious atheism but rather an inherited, brittle and angry atheism that assumes the final triumph of reductionist materialist science has been accomplished.

Why should Google engage with an evil, bribery-based, rent-seeking competitor, and their bought politicians, until they run out of relatively easier conquests, and have the revenue from those conquests funding further expansion, and their relationships with independent content creators at a much higher value from a larger customer base?Particularly when those competitors are not seeking to confront Google, and are preferring to play rent-seeking games with anti-neutrality in their networks, thus making their end game even more brittle?

Brittle definitions

noun

caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

See also: toffee toffy

adjective

having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

See also: brickle brickly

adjective

lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"

adjective

(of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured

See also: unannealed