How to Use fraying in a Sentence

fraying

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  • Mr. Michael’s exit and the fraying of the A-Team is just the tip of more changes to come.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 12 June 2017
  • To keep the rope ends from fraying, use a lighter to seal them.
    — Katie Leporte, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2021
  • Use a lit match to seal the cut end and prevent fraying.
    — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 22 July 2020
  • The end of all the ropes are shrunken with heat to prevent fraying.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 26 Mar. 2021
  • And are there costs to us in the fraying of the relationship?
    — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Now there's starting to be some fraying around the edges there.
    — NBC News, 20 June 2021
  • The tough fibers always knock the dirt off, and even after a year of hard use, there isn’t any fraying.
    — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2022
  • If desired, tape or sew the edges of the fabric to prevent fraying.
    — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Ahead of the vote, Erdogan has been on a quest to mend fraying ties and strengthen old ones.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
  • These socks hold up well in the wash with no fraying, but remember to wash cold and lay out to dry to avoid pilling.
    — Leslie Hsu Oh, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Secure Ends Your next step is to secure the ends, to prevent any messy fraying once the trim is in place.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 13 Mar. 2019
  • These shears leave a jagged edge, which prevents fraying.
    — Vanessa Nirode, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
  • But, says McFaul, the danger is not the numbers of nukes per se, but the fraying rules of the nuclear game.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Cut a clothesline into pieces to fit your design, and singe the ends of each piece to prevent fraying.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Then, the clip cuts to 2022, and shows us scenes of what sure looks like old friendships fraying -- Whitney and Heather yelling at each other!
    — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Cut clothesline into pieces to fit your design, and singe the ends of each piece to prevent fraying.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
  • This design is made with polypropylene, and the edges are heat-treated to help prevent fraying and wear.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
  • That would keep them on the fraying edge of the playoff picture until the last few weeks of the regular season.
    — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 15 July 2019
  • Cons There were small signs of wear, including light fraying, after a few weeks of use.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The scuff guard keeps the bottoms from fraying, and the boot gaiters are wide enough to accommodate larger boots but cinch down enough to keep the snow out.
    — Aaron H. Bible, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2023
  • His is a voice under pressure that sometimes sounds just this side of fraying.
    — Adam Bradley Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The 73-year-old farmer, dressed in dusty jeans and fraying shoes, was finishing lunch while customers browsed for mums, on special for $4 a pot.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • What to Consider The edges could be more tailored to prevent fraying.
    — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The buttons felt well-made too, and their eyeholes held them nicely in place without any fraying.
    — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The edges are serged for durability and to prevent fraying.
    — Terri Huggins Hart, Woman's Day, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Burke is set to undergo surgery Friday to repair a partial tear and some fraying in his left labrum.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • This is largely due to the wash and tailored fit of her denim shorts suit, which didn’t have any rips or fraying, and her timeless accessories.
    — Emma Spedding, Vogue, 25 June 2023
  • In his visits to Hartford, King acknowledged the fraying of young people’s patience at the plodding rate of progress, Close said.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Courant Community, 4 Apr. 2018
  • With the fraying of the social safety net, Americans can’t count on the government in times of bounty, let alone crisis.
    — Jonathan Malesic, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Rinse and air dry: heat, even friction caused by towel-drying, will cause extra fraying.
    — Vogue, 30 June 2017

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