| The golf bag chafed my left shoulder beneath my tee-shirt and my left palm was badly blistered. |
| In many ways he was unsuited to the life of a country parson, and he chafed under the restrictions. |
| He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold. |
| Alexander was pushed up against the side of the carriage and bound with hemp rope that chafed uncomfortably against his bare wrists. |
| Correspondents chafed at the numerous, often contradictory, rewrites demanded by producers. |
| The composer chafed under programmatic restraints and felt more comfortable with formal design, a sign of the symphonist to come. |
