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How to use fretting in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word fretting? Here are some examples.

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The juice bubbled and frothed through the open bung hole, and was said to be working or fretting.
This same product also secures the crown wheel to the differential to prevent fretting.
It would have been so typical of me to start panicking and fretting with all that is expected of me.
When the upper middle classes complain about housing prices, they are really fretting about the cost of housing in the most desirable locations.
He keeps fretting himself into a frenzy on a race continuum, sliding between dynamic and charismatic, sinister and galling.
Evidently the good denizens of the street were too busy fretting about the economy to concern themselves with such small geographical matters.
It is not true that thousands of employers are fretting about differentiating between the brightest students.
These letters reveal the eager young composer fretting anxiously over arrangements.
I found myself fretting almost uncontrollably at the sides of the boys who carried Will to a spare spot under a vacant tree.
Envying and fretting meet in the same persons, and are equally dehorted from.
These letters reveal the eager young composer fretting anxiously over arrangements for the premiere of the work.
His fretting about his Scotticisms made the Enlightenment an alien presence to robust patriots.
By its design, the traditional failure mode in tinplated connections, fretting corrosion, is prevented.
Lawyers are fretting that firms may try to hijack the rugby event by sending out skywriters or flying blimps during the matches.
So I'm starting to suspect that fretting about bloatware is more of a mental health problem than a software problem.
Then Handy describes the guitarist playing slide, fretting his instrument with a knife.
This latest fretting has been prompted by a branch of science called nanotechnology.
The little boy, who slipped and fell so unpropitiously a few days ago, lies fretting in his bed in the cramped room.
I'll just keep going to shows, quietly vacillating between fretting and rocking out.
I just wanted to let you all know because I'm certain you'd be fretting until Monday otherwise. Ha ha ha!
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Examples from Classical Literature
It isn't a lively look-out to live in a tin-pot house here, and come home to find the mater fretting over her lost splendours.
Mr. Galloway was fuming and fretting at the non-arrival of his clerk, Mr. Jenkins.
She must turn away from Guy, and as she turned she saw that what had been fretting the window-pane was a spray of yellow jasmine.
Give him a touch with the rope's-end, Jem, if ever you do observe him fretting.
Vann Shatrak, who was now commanding his battle-line unit by screen from the proconsular Palace, began fretting.
Two years passed, and at eighteen she was fretting that half her life had wasted away.
All ye who seek forgetting, Leave frowns and fears and fretting, Here by the sea Are fair and free To give you peace and petting.
Sam was forward, keeping a lookout and fretting at the delay.
There Banjo sidled, yawed, and passaged, fretting to be after the brown.
Mary got your Sunday clothes ready, and everybody's been fretting about you.
You said the other day you thought we were a deal happier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.
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