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Friable is an English word with synonyms like breakable or light. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Friable in a sentence

Friable meaning

  1. Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
  2. Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
  3. Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.

Synonyms of Friable

breakable light sandy loose

Related words

Other words often associated with Friable or its synonyms:

brittle frail white buoyant loosen uncontrolled argillaceous heavy lax silty splintery easy

Using Friable

  • The main meaning on this page is: Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder. | Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency. | Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
  • Useful related words include: breakable, light, sandy, loose.
  • In the example corpus, friable often appears in combinations such as: friable asbestos, more friable.

Context around Friable

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

non 1× create 1× prefers 1× became 1×

Often after:

asbestos 1× meat 1× soil 1× loose 1× loam 1× reduced 1× brown 1×

Sentence patterns with Friable

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

all non friable and friable 1× becomes a friable brown or 1× friable and friable asbestos from 1× grows on friable loam soil 1× is more friable and less 1× it became friable reduced to 1× or more friable meat becomes 1× sativus prefers friable loose low 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

c sativus prefers 1× in many cases 1× rosemary grows on 1× so in april 1× the drought dried 1× the principal rock 1×

Common sentence endings:

and less flexible 1× as asbestos safe 1× high organic content 1× i ve produced 1× in some places 1× open sunny position 1×

Words around Friable

Just before it in the word index:

fria 5 fri 83 frhs 2 frg 17 frf 2 frezza 2

Just after it in the word index:

friant 5 friar 93 friarage 4 friaries 2 friars 137 friarton 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aakash 12 aanholt 12 aardwolf 12 abadan 12 abati 12 abcc 12

Corpus analysis for Friable

  • In this selection, "friable" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, non, create, prefers, asbestos, meat and soil stand out and add context to how "friable" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include all non friable and friable and becomes a friable brown or. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "friable" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with friable

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Rosemary grows on friable loam soil with good drainage in an open, sunny position. (14 words)

C. sativus prefers friable, loose, low-density, well-watered, and well-drained clay- calcareous soils with high organic content. (19 words)

The drought dried the topsoil and over time it became friable, reduced to a powdery consistency in some places. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

The principal rock of kimberlite is a dark bluish-green serpentine-rich breccia (blue-ground) which when thoroughly oxidized and weathered becomes a friable brown or yellow mass (the "yellow-ground"). (31 words)

So in April it’s a sair fecht driving a reluctant fork into concrete-like ground and trying to create friable soil out of the dry sods I’ve produced. (30 words)

We have defined the remediation works as the removal of all non-friable and friable asbestos from the building, with the goal of certifying the building as asbestos safe. (29 words)

Example sentences (7)

We have defined the remediation works as the removal of all non-friable and friable asbestos from the building, with the goal of certifying the building as asbestos safe.

In many cases, this causes the structure of the material to become softer or more friable – meat becomes cooked and is more friable and less flexible.

So in April it’s a sair fecht driving a reluctant fork into concrete-like ground and trying to create friable soil out of the dry sods I’ve produced.

C. sativus prefers friable, loose, low-density, well-watered, and well-drained clay- calcareous soils with high organic content.

Rosemary grows on friable loam soil with good drainage in an open, sunny position.

The drought dried the topsoil and over time it became friable, reduced to a powdery consistency in some places.

The principal rock of kimberlite is a dark bluish-green serpentine-rich breccia (blue-ground) which when thoroughly oxidized and weathered becomes a friable brown or yellow mass (the "yellow-ground").

Common combinations with friable

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "friable" in a sentence?
An example: "We have defined the remediation works as the removal of all non-friable and friable asbestos from the building, with the goal of certifying the building as asbestos safe." This page contains 7 example sentences with the word "friable" from authentic English texts.
What does "friable" mean?
Friable means: Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
What are synonyms of "friable"?
Common synonyms of "friable" include: breakable, light, sandy, loose.
How many example sentences with "friable" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 7 example sentences with "friable", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.