fraying

Your brother smoked a joint before dinner to calm his fraying nerves.

Lebanon is fraying at the edges, but for now the center holds.

Peterson is wearing a crisp white-and-blue striped shirt and fraying paisley ascot.

Both a social worker and his parents warned the authorities about his fraying mental state.

Some of the breakdown is cultural--a fraying of the basic ties that keep people connected and cared for.

Control cables have a way of wearing out and fraying wherever they pass round pulleys.

In wet weather it is absolutely necessary to turn up the bottoms of your trousers, to keep them from fraying.

The cord used should be of the best hemp, specially made with only two strands of very long fibres to facilitate fraying out.

Top Sergeant Mahans patience stopped fraying, and ripped from end to end.

By the fraying-post the huntsman used to be able to judge if the stag he wished to harbour was a warrantable stag or not.