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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
breakable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many laboratories spend thousands of dollars a year on breakable glass equipment.
▪ Put breakable objects out of the reach of children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Here the cut-price and the breakable predominated.
▪ I saw Thelma clearing the counter of anything breakable.
▪ Likewise, avoid small breakable ornaments.
▪ The latest version uses an encrypted password and isn't easily breakable.
▪ There will be no more breakable bones or shoddy arteries.
▪ Tobie made to sit in a chair and then desisted, because it was inlaid and foreign and breakable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breakable

Breakable \Break"a*ble\, a. Capable of being broken.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
breakable

1560s, from break (v.) + -able. As a noun, breakables is attested from 1820.

Wiktionary
breakable

a. 1 Able to be broken 2 fragile n. 1 Something that is (easily) breakable. 2 (context usually in the plural musical instruments English) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consistthe drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.

WordNet
breakable

  1. adj. capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" [ant: unbreakable]

  2. n. an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately"

Usage examples of "breakable".

In existing businesses, foreknowledge enables breakable items to be stored beforehand.

Although Paris fire codes required windows above fifteen meters in public buildings be breakable in case of fire, exiting a Louvre second-story window without the help of a hook and ladder would be suicide.

One shriek was so loud, and so breakable, that nothing could follow it.

They handed her round the roomful of guests as though she had been something precious and breakable, and after a few minutes of pure terror, she began to enjoy herself.

He did touch them now, delicately as if they were breakable crystal, and the sting of desire she'd felt earlier heightened to such intensity she didn't think she could contain it a moment longer.

Remember that he has the strength of twenty men, and that, though our necks or our windpipes are of the common kind, and therefore breakable or crushable, his are not amenable to mere strength.

Her waist was so slender, above the flare of the crinolette skirt, that she seemed literally breakable there.

Lien nonetheless moved through the crowded dining and family rooms with the smiling serenity of the perfect hostess, a state of mind no doubt helped by the removal of everything remotely breakable from the rooms and a warning posted on the stairs that any intruders upstairs would be summarily shot.

Will you ask Plenna to try manipulating something, preferably not dangerous or breakable?

Mama moved everything breakable, shreddable, or toxic out of her room so the baby wouldn't destroy it or himself.