chafing

Example Sentences

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Analysts predict that consumers, already chafing at rising subscription fees for streaming services, will be spending even more if the deal goes through.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

And when the authoritarian leader starts to display physical impairment, the people who have been chafing under his iron fist stop fearing him.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2025

Especially when businesses and households already are chafing under the costs of the transition to date.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Core Scientific shareholders are also chafing at what they perceive to be a missed rally in the stock.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

On a sideboard nearby there was a little chafing dish and a basket of poppy heads.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman