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Sentence Examples And as nerves fray and tempers rise, you can be assured of a catty remark or backstage rumpus. No one minds throwing these items away once the seams start to fray, but what if you're buying the real deal? The 19-year-old limped from the fray in the first-half after twisting his ankle where the side of the Gay Meadow pitch met the surrounding track. Overcast the cut edges so they don't fray, then toss the item in the machine by itself in case of colour bleed. Chris turned around to see Brandon and Ami rushing out into the fray, Ami armed with a wooden bokken and Brandon with his sword. Finally the skin sloughs away and the muscles fray out resulting in what resembles a hairy mane. A woman jumped into the fray, slapped the thief and then led the buffalo by the horns to safety. As the game progressed I was itching to get a run and with eight minutes to go, I got the nod to enter the fray. It still took a last gasp goal to save Erin's Own, but the certainty is they'll return to the fray on Saturday all buoyed up. Gradually Rosedale opened to view and we dipped into North Dale which is hidden from the fray but spacious. Whoever their opponents, York will enter the fray in good heart after a weekend double over West Leeds of Yorkshire Two. Moreover, overlocking seams and hemming garments are not necessary because the fabric doesn't fray. David Noonan changed places with Jimmy Barrett in the Kerry goal with all 16 players entering the fray at this stage. But if entering the supermarket fray is too hot to handle, let's make a simple suggestion. Each time, with undue fuss, he clambered to his feet and returned to the fray. In Hollywood's high colonic culture, she stands conspicuously at a distance from the clamorously confessional fray. Seres disappeared into the fray, a pair of short blades cleaving a path through the enemy that had rushed into the clearing. His cuirassiers plunged into the thick of the fray at once, driving the Swedes pell-mell back across the ditch and road. The environment needs to be unquestionably safe for Mum and myself to coexist in harmony, and tensions were beginning to fray. It looked like the watergas option was a fait accompli with the Stratford Town Board, until a forward-thinking man stepped into the fray. Show More Sentences Some have even returned to the fray for second helpings, while journeymen pros have come and gone like travelling salesmen. Gustafsson plays contrabass saxophone, but his contribution is also too brief, though staggering enough when it does enter the fray. I make 30 exposures, my flashguns lighting up the fray, a turmoil of thrashing tails and boiling sand. More than a few Scots will fling themselves into the frozen fray as Winter Olympians for Team GB this fortnight in Salt Lake City. It would be nice to fold each side over about an inch and sew it just so it doesn't fray and start to look like a rag. This fabric doesn't fray, comes in a wide array of patterns and solids, and does not need to be hemmed or sewn! Often the chimps modified the fishing probe, pulling it through their teeth to fray the end like a paintbrush. What with that and the Cajun music my nerves are beginning to fray somewhat. It is also expected that some other candidates will enter the fray before convention night. But the fact that she's still willing to enter the fray is in itself a tribute to her survival skills. I can't wait to enter the fray again, to challenge ignorance, to mock hypocrisy, to defeat a lie. Day by day, new names enter the fray and it looks as if there will be a bumper number of candidates for the elections to be held on 11 th June. Many scientists enter the fray from evolutionary biology, the branch of science that conflicts most directly with religion. Although it feels like it has been going on for decades, alas, it's still a necessary discussion, and I've been meaning to enter the fray. That Aberdeen game saw him enter the fray as a first-half substitute, only to suffer the indignity of being hooked later in the game. Overall domestic market share is down and it's recently been falling in the light truck sector, as new foreign competitors enter the fray. It is possible other bidders could enter the fray, if the take-out price is seen as too low. But to do that, they would have to want to enter the fray, starting from the bottom and working their way up the pecking order at rock festivals. What is really necessary is to curb the number of independent candidates who enter the fray, to no useful purpose. To enter the fray, you need to know the business and have pretty thick skin. Show More Sentences Kate felt a rush of adrenaline as she drew the silver sword and flew into the fray, her war cry calling the phantom armies to her. She decided to weave her way through the fray, trying to avoid battles, but one knight insisted on aiding her. Police officers pushed several against cars to separate them from the fray as the fight spilled into a parking garage. France entered into the fray as an ally of Russia and declared war on Germany. This is a book you cannot put down, as each page brings the reader deeper into the fray of battle. Abruptly, Beth and the other vampire joined the fray, fighting with teeth as well as preternatural speed and strength. What clearly separated her from the others in the fray was her controlled aggression. A signing target for the Teesside club, his late introduction to the fray leaves him cup-tied to United. Or, if you're really the excited kind, then enter your own li'l furball into the fray. Heavy feet pounded on the packed dirt and a moment later Michael was wading into the fray. Miller, nursing a dead leg, limped from the fray shortly afterwards, to be replaced by David Hannah. It would be tragic if he suffers yet another body blow, fails to recognise it, and chooses to remain in the fray punch-drunk and disoriented. Occasionally, however, the poet rises above his discursive fray long enough to interrogate the nature of the dispute. The affront of water divining to the latter's modernist pretensions led to foreign experts being pressed into the fray, but to no avail. I have a short errand to run, then I'll reschedule my meeting with Mark and plunge back into the fray. So we joined the fray, and asked Pendle Borough Council for the proposed conservation area to be extended. The other issues were dredged up later, presumably to incite a better flow of signatories and to bring the tabloid press into the fray. Now that the established industry players are joining the fray, the competition will only intensify. It is wreathed in ragged cloud and rivers pour off its edges to fray 350 metres down towards the desert floor. The raw edge will be tucked away inside the first fold, unexposed on either the outside or inside, and therefore won't fray. Show More Sentences Debate recommenced in the Commons, with tempers starting to fray, and fewer and fewer MPs following the detailed arguments. As for Prowse, he has no plans to return to the fray, but it might not be the last we hear from him. After a rest day tomorrow, India will take on archrivals Pakistan while Germany, the fourth team in the fray, play Holland on Tuesday. If your buttonholes tend to fray, place a dab of fray retardant on the back of the buttonhole. But instead I sighed and got up and stepped into the fray to mediate, whereupon grandma entered and lit into me. Thompson, who has a badly bruised foot and limped from the dismal fray early in the second-half on Tuesday, could be out for two weeks. William Gallas had to remain in the fray despite an injury that gave him an ever more pronounced limp. At times, sharp clicks and bubbles of noise will suddenly bulge to the top before disappearing back into the fray. Whoever wins the balloting will govern a country whose vaunted economic recovery is starting to fray. As for Tom, a clear sign when a forward has lost confidence or the appetite for the fray is when they choose to kick rather than take contact. Working eight-hour days, it has been hard for the cast to stay focused and nerves do occasionally fray. I try to imagine this, taking the opportunity to gather my breath before returning to the fray. Calling for backup, the police then arrested several more onlookers who had entered into the fray. Mayonnaise, salad dressings, ketchup, barbecue sauce, teriyaki sauce, sweet pickles and many other products have entered the low-carb fray. Then the fight became a full-on melee as the crowd found its nerve and joined the fray. The Senate will join the fray as it plans to debate the issue before the Memorial Day break. Great minds such as ours must be serene and tranquil in order to remain above the fray. In the last few years, we had a revival of 60s and 70s fashion, with turtlenecks, bell-bottoms and jeans cut to fray dominating the landscape. Create a straight fray line for your fringe by clipping through the selvage on one side of the fabric, then gently pulling a crosswise thread across the fabric width. As soon as the government announced the sad story, for example, conspiracy theorists jumped into the fray. Show More Sentences The government then jumped into the fray with an unofficial call to arms. There are also rumours that a financial bidder could enter the fray and then sell stores to the supermarket giant, which was very disappointed not be cleared. Consequently when the wound in his hand healed Albert volunteered to re-enter the fray and returned to the Western Front with the Machine Gun Corps. As ever, the utopians and cynics have both jumped into the fray. It gets worse when Ian's straight-laced parents enter the fray. Damion would not allow her entry to the city, but if she hung back until he was in the fray, she could sneak herself into the battle and be of some use. The extropians, transhumanists and futurists have joined the fray and they are being aided by the likes of the Institute for Accelerating Change in Los Angeles. Into the fray steps a candidate once very pally with the incumbent Liberal Party but then opting to run on an independent ticket due to strong differences of opinion. You can wade into the fray and battle the many monsters the game tosses your way, but at times you also will have to switch into a special mode which slows everything. The home side looked down and out before 13-year-old Woodhead, batting at No 10, entered the fray and struck 25 to take them so close to their target. Effortlessly sidestepping a wayward javelin, the Grand Master leapt into the fray, landing with such force that several Serpent-Men were sent sprawling backwards. The paper was thin and the edges were beginning to fray from age. In the middle of the fray he took off his uniform shirt, untucked his t-shirt, and put his gun in the back of his belt. The strike threat could further fray the shattered nerves of dozens of bleary-eyed wives, mothers and sisters who remained camped outside Carandiru. Nerves are beginning to fray as the match reaches a tense climax. The endowment scandal looks set to blow up in the insurance industry's face this week as evidence mounts that the government has entered the fray and is looking for solutions. It's a sad situation, but it's changed now completely because the United States of America has entered the battle and the fray with all of our resources. Limp and trembling, she clung to my neck as we sprinted past the beachhead fray. Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray. But by 1928, he was ready to get back into the fray, buoyed by supporters in and out of the media. Show More Sentences Then the crackdown began and cairenes rushed into the streets to join the fray. Just to pluck at blind random one of the many very thorny Operation Relex circumstances from the bastardly murky and unexamined recent historical fray. China, despite their presently weak technology, will soon join the fray. The deal has set the hares running in the industry and some investors are betting a rival suitor, possibly from the US, will enter the fray with a higher offer. The six-year-old, a winner in the summer, returned to the fray at Wetherby recently and ran as though in need of the race when finishing unplaced to Brandy Wine. I considered whether to enter the fray, since my credentials were in order, so to speak. It was an assassin's duel, the usual messy fray, no holds barred. But Hide enters the fray as soon as he smells blood on anyone. The red stains are discoloration from the original shade of the shirt and the holes are from natural wear and fray. He then entered the fray for Malton after a lay-off with injury and quickly made his mark with a powerful burst to get his name on the scoresheet. Four scuffles during the game, with one fight in particular arousing a supporter to the point that he decided to enter the fray by attacking one of the players himself. In her films, Wishman employs standard melodramatic plot lines and then inverts the parameters to impose illicit acts and criminal vice into the fray. And of course doctors, brigades of doctors have entered the fray, flexing and preening for the ubiquitous television cameras. Atlanta's Jay Feely, one of the few kickers crazed enough to leap into the fray, recalls battling a Panthers player at the bottom of the pileup last season. American, British and French firms, both big and small, entered the fray as the teddy bear industry burgeoned into a multi-million dollar market of global dimensions. As is often the case when the letter and the spirit of the law begin to fray, legal creativity gets called upon to mend them. Now the vicar son of Wolves star Stan Cullis has waded into the fray, bleating that his father would have given Terry a rollicking. They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray. After 12 minutes, Chelsea's most conspicuous absentee, dear old Lady Luck, returned to the fray and handed them the flukiest of openers. Unruly clients might take the bit between their teeth and threaten to drag their patron into the fray. Show More Sentences Readers of Antiquity, and our correspondent Stephen Houston, who along with other Mesoamericanists has entered the fray, may beg to differ. The plucky Arizonan comes across as a woman who holds herself above the fray. Reports of an increased Kraft bid come amid expectations that another US firm, Hershey, is set to enter the fray with a counterbid for Cadbury. Many more German divisions would enter the fray over the next few days. Though they did not know the reason for the dispute, they did not hesitate to leap into the fray. As unsubstantiated claims receive significant backing, skeptics and defenders of mainstream science enter the fray. Indeed, the physical confines behind the crest of Ambion Hill, combined with a difficulty of communications, probably physically hampered any attempt he made to join the fray. We don't want to have to enter that fray, so to create the best, most level playing field, both actually and perceptually, we separated it by platform. The Captaincy General of Guatemala lasted for more than two centuries, but began to fray after a rebellion in 1811 which began in the intendancy of San Salvador. Larger agribusiness players soon entered the fray in the Kimberley region, with irrigated plantations of Santalum album, an exotic species native to India. It felt sneaky, cultish, and a little dangerous, living beyond the fray. Richard's barons joined in the fray and turned against their duke. Predictably, the champions of state ownership AKEL also joined the fray lambasting the government for wanting to sell off the public wealth to private capital. According to the EC, it has appointed three flying squads in each district to oversee the flow of black money and other gifts to voters by candidates in the fray. Examples from Classical Literature With his back against the rose-leaves, and his shield on guard, slyboots waited for the fray. We all reached the spital, hiring from Blairgowrie, a day or two before the 12th, in high spirits and hopes for the coming fray. When the battle of warfare begins, it shall be where crookback Richard made his fray. To have seen you and your unforgotten face, Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray. He possessed no gladiatorial spirit and did not relish fray for the sake of it. Then, glutted with the feast, he crept away to lick his bruises and recover from the fray. A Patrician and a Consul, so it was alleged, had truculently assaulted the Green party, and one man had lost his life in the fray. His appearance in the fray was like that of a bombshell timed to explode in its midst. Odysseus and Telemachos rushed into the fray with double-edged swords. Eleven Indians were killed in this fray, and five were taken captive. Will they forge you the sword of your deliverance, will they marshal you the army and lead it to the fray? Thus the young, full-blooded Normans awaited their first fray. The Haymarket bomb made me strip again and for a nobler fray. Take mine, I'll say I've killed you, stiffly dead, in mortal fray. Then up rose the younger Campbell all booted and kilted for the fray. The man ran into the barn, returned with a lariat, and joined the fray. Alexander the Coppersmith returned to the fray in 1737, now to fulminate against the clique that controlled the corporation of Cork. Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments. Then the Englishmen, not to be behindhand in the fray, came to the rescue. You might have deemed that you beheld Bellona speeding to the fray. Show More Sentences Then she fell to thinking how bravely he had borne him in that fray. I am robust, eager for the fray, an Amazon, a brazen-faced hussy. It is the newspaper man's instinct to be in the center of the fray. Phorcys, again, and noble Ascanius led the Phrygians from the far country of Ascania, and both were eager for the fray. Like all these ladies, she was delightedly preparing for the fray. He had the doglike habit of shaking himself at the close of a fray. Aouda had escaped unharmed, and Fix alone bore marks of the fray in his black and blue bruise. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. With the first light we were up and making ready for the fray. From there I shall watch how the glorious struggle goes in conservative old England, and if I am needed you will find me here again fighting in the forefront of the fray. Doubtless some of Tess d'Urberville's mailed ancestors rollicking home from a fray had dealt the same measure even more ruthlessly towards peasant girls of their time. I will not be long in joining you, for I too am eager for the fray. They both looked long, while the torchlight flared on them, on the walls of the cave, and the broad blade of Groan-Maker, and from around rose the sounds of the fray. Anyone who knows canine nature need hardly, be told that, by this time, all the other dogs in the place were fighting as if their hearths and homes depended on the fray. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of fray? Words that rhyme with fray What is the past tense of fray? What is the plural of fray? What is the adjective for fray? What is the noun for fray? Translations for fray Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words fraxinus fraxinella Fraunhofer Fraulein fraulein fraught with Fray frayed frayed nerves fraying frayn frays 4-letter Words Starting With f fr fra