How to Use friable in a Sentence

friable

adjective
  • The soils are mainly Galestro, a type of very friable clay-schist composed of clay-limestone and sandy loam.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Texture comes into play here, as well, with wispy nests of friable katayifi topping each scallop.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The soil is peat dark, friable, and gravid with potatoes, onions, sugar beet, lettuce, maize, and wheat that moves in dry, whispering sheets.
    Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026
  • However, the fragile and friable nature of aged amber likely posed a significant challenge to its removal.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Those unregulated hazardous substances include liquid waste, friable, asbestos wastes and combustion wastes.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Dec. 2025

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