fraying

Example Sentences

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The tribute, read by Reverend Nicholas Fraying, brought some of the gathered congregation to tears as he told stories from Dame Patricia's life.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

Fraying of the paved surface made it difficult for two large vehicles to drive past each other.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2016

Fraying Landline Given the economics of landline telecommunications, it's little wonder AT&T hasn't made a market-altering investment in its U-Verse service.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 4, 2010

Hughes' essay this week, The Fraying of America, is adapted from his lecture series at the New York Public Library titled "The Culture of Complaint," to be published later this year by Oxford University Press.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fraying out of the protoplasmic border in large lymphocytes.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.