Now we had to reverse all those brittle ice traverses with broken tools.

The brittle ice on the sidewalks and in the streets was swiftly melting into slush.

He was putting his feet down in two or three inches of snow and, here and there, on patches of brittle ice.

He reached down for her hand, and it was like ice, thin, brittle ice.

Its cold temperatures are known to produce brittle ice that can crack and shatter like glass.

At Dome C, the first 1000 m were brittle ice.

The snow had become brittle ice on the ground.

Heat snapped mirrors like the brittle winter ice.

Chunks of brittle ice began to zoom down the chute.

He felt safer, despite the darkness, the white, snow-covered common and brittle ice would give him warning of any assassin's approach.