How to Use breakable in a Sentence

breakable

adjective
  • Snow crab leg shells are breakable enough for simply cracking open with your hands.
    Coastal Living, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Snow crab leg shells are breakable enough for simply cracking open with your hands.
    Mary Tomlinson, Southern Living, 2 July 2020
  • The tree scraped the ceiling and had great, breakable balls that would weigh down the branches.
    Brooklyn White, Essence, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Liverpool may have held the clean sheet at home, but its defense is breakable.
    Avi Creditor, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Perhaps the company wants to make the phone less breakable first.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 22 Feb. 2022
  • LEDs are less breakable and don't get as hot, but bulbs are costly up front.
    The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 30 Dec. 2013
  • Place breakable and heavy items on lower shelves and cabinets.
    oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2021
  • This year, Google replaces the glass with an aluminum strap that should be less breakable.
    Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 6 Oct. 2022
  • With gifts that are very breakable, make sure they’re padded and packaged correctly.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Here are 15 that might appear breakable, but aren't going off the books.
    Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • However, the latter are less breakable and chill drinks faster.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The breakable items were the worst — dishes, glasses, picture frames.
    Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2021
  • This unique organizer fits all kinds of ornaments—not just the breakable ones that go on trees.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Her fearless mind had to contend with the reality of her breakable body.
    Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Bisque dolls reflected the fact that life was fragile and breakable, and so were human bodies.
    Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In homes with small children, take special care to avoid decorations that are sharp or breakable.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Yet these thin, easily breakable shells may be the key to making better, stronger bone grafts for humans.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
  • Chemistry kits can contain chemicals that are a fire hazard along with breakable glass parts like test tubes.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Keep In Mind The glass doors, while attractive, are more breakable than wood.
    Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2023
  • The memoir aims for jottings that, like their subjects, are thin, breakable, and already sliding off the page.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The trick is to keep it all organized, handy, and minimal—with as few breakable items as possible.
    Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The crew builds each of the three windows as a separate scene, full of nooks and crannies and places that look breakable, which is part of the draw.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Bosses can be defeated in many different ways, some of them as secret as the breakable walls all over the game’s maps.
    Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Magical prisms of sky blue, bright pink, cherry apple red, and silver are back in vogue and as breakable as ever.
    Kirby Adams, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The magical prisms of sky blue, bright pink, cherry apple red, and silver are back in vogue and as breakable as ever.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Without an active alarm system, a museum with breakable windows and fences is just a sitting duck.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2019
  • He was frustrated with how breakable everything was and didn’t want to open up his van and find broken glass everywhere.
    Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But because jars are heavy and breakable, shipping them doesn’t make much sense for smaller companies like Lance’s.
    Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2020
  • One was, the stunt person being pulled backward into the wall, which was made of breakable material.
    Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 26 May 2016
  • This gift comes with four breakable hearts that are each filled with chocolate surprises and chocolate chips, and includes a mix of dark and milk chocolate.
    Lauren Fischer, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023

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