fray
Example Sentences
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She ran into the house and came back with a two-foot length of thin, fraying rope.
From Literature
"When we moved into this house, it was in good condition," she recalls, sitting on a frayed chair and looking at the pink paint peeling off the walls.
From BBC
Rival companies are lining up to join the fray.
From Barron's
Police also began to work directly with increasingly active neighborhood organizations that sprang up while city life frayed after the George Floyd riots.
On Tuesday, two popular pandas departed Tokyo for China, leaving Japan without any of the beloved bears for the first time in 50 years as ties between the Asian neighbours fray.
From Barron's
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