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How to use fretful in a sentence

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I was a bit fretful in the back of the big silver car that had been sent to pick me up.
Then there are the stories of faraway lands and long journeys through fretful nights.
Regardless, we witness the former queen of Naboo become little more than a fretful hausfrau.
Activists and candidates, fretful about the coming general election, understandably want a quick fix.
Passengers once glad to stand in line grow fretful as officials frisk grandmas' bags for tweezers.
Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky.
So, did 400 million citizens and voters queue in blistering heat of 40-plus to soothe the fretful nerves of the market?
Meanwhile, the sharpening air threshes the veteran bronze leafiness of the oaks and strips the pines, fretful in the breeze, of their needles.
Personal relations have become restless, fretful, often disturbed by an itch for change and variety.
And as for the public library, who could dream of taking a fretful infant in there?
Perhaps they could sell a book about it to guilty, fretful western mothers.
Nolan has found his groove as a vocalist and his breathy, fretful, at times desperate vocals, are effectively emotive without being maudlin.
Tiernan performs with the casual ease of a natural raconteur, but the appearance belies an almost fretful perfectionism.
From the time he returned he was a man in a hurry, fretful, ambitious and, no doubt as his wife found, difficult to live with.
She rarely dreamed, but she did that night, fretful visions of tight-held jesses and the clipping of wings.
A traumatised soldier of the American Civil War deserts to get home to his fretful wife.
They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
Now, I've seen the chapter in question and can assure my fretful reader that this is typical Kreeftian whimsy.
His disheveled hair became even more messy when he ran another fretful hand through it before he started the engine.
Mr Royama and others are likely to find the coming week a very fretful one indeed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An' Josh he got kind o' fretful to her, an' she to him, an' 'Mandy was all honey an' cream.
But she hardly ever looked in his direction, and when she spoke to him it was in a cold or fretful voice.
The women moistened its lips with barley-water, and hushed its fretful whimper.
Sometimes she was fretful and peevish, and sometimes hopelessly dejected and sad.
She has grown fretful, and all her brightness and hopefulness have vanished.
I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.
The video cuts between luridly shot reenactments and heart-to-hearts or fretful scriptwriting in a mod hotel room.
When she was a tiny, weeny thing she was always crying and fretful.
They were like the fretful and profitless chafings of waves upon a rock.
The door of her room was ajar and the sound came down the corridor, a far-off faint sound of fretful crying.
But bubby's fretful cries told that what was left was bad enough.
I doubt not that our conduct had much to do with making him appear awkward, and of consequence fretful.
Lecount and her master which Noel Vanstone's little fretful outbreak had just disclosed to him.
Seems to me she's failing right along, and that's what makes her so fretful and easy vexed.
So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.
Gummidge's was rather a fretful disposition, and she whimpered more sometimes than was comfortable for other parties in so small an establishment.
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