The air is so cold it magnifies the brittle sound of their footsteps.

There was a sudden, brittle sound as the knifeblade snapped.

At once a shot rang out, punched through the window with a brittle cracking sound.

The brittle sound carried on the air and echoed around them.

At this, Anja merely laughed, a cold and brittle sound.

Daxon's voice came through the air with a brittle, urgent sound.

He brought the stone down once again; heard the brittle sound of bone as it snapped beneath the rock.

The mummy made a brittle cracking sound as it stepped forward.

There was the brittle sound of something breaking inside.

Trees did not make that dry, brittle sound, as if old, dead bones were being rubbed together.