Let me put you to bed; Mammy taught me the art of soothing frayed nerves.
Hitching at hisfrayed flannel collar, the man partly turned his back on the lawyer and listened with a heavy frown to Helen's quick answers to the questions put to her.
This was the parent who a few weeks ago she had associated irrevocably in her mind with spots and frayed collars!
Armathwaite drew a chair to the window and unfolded a frayed newspaper, laying another on his knees.
It fairly cried itself from the big-figured paper, peeling along its edges; from the worn painted floor; from the frayed rug of now patternless carpet; from the sideboard that looked like a parlor organ.
Nature conducts a vast renovating and cleaning establishment, and whenever any old ideas look the least bit frayed or soiled around the edges, pop, in they go, and come out French dry-cleaned and as fresh as ever.
A book isn't ripe until it begins to be frayed around the edges.
There was a scrap of old frayed rope upon the table, lying side by side with some tin-tacks, a hammer, and a couple of blank luggage-labels.
Is it slow to be dangling from a housetop with a frayed rope slipping through your hands and seventy feet of empty space below you?
A sunbeam glanced across the room, and made the frayed edge of Edgar's coat stand out beautifully, but he looked terribly clean.
All frayed and secondhand loves may be made ashamed by the fearlessness of these two walking to their farewell trysting-place, lonely amid the world of heather.
It was frayed and faded, and it had lost both strings.
What did the narrow passage and steep, ladder-like stairs matter, or the frayed and dingy druggetting, when that starlight glow of home radiance beamed so brightly.
The poor, little frock looked sadly frayed and shabby; no wonder Miss Althea thought she needed a new one.
She hunted along the stale-smelling corridors with their wallpaper of cerise daisies and poison-green rosettes, streaked in white spots from spilled water, their frayed red and yellow matting, and rows of pine doors painted a sickly blue.
I shall still think nobler of the sex, Believe a woman still may take a man For the short period that his soul wears flesh, And, for the soul's sake, understand the fault Of armor frayed by fighting.
The March had set me down There whence I plucked the measure, as his brown Frayed flannel-bit my blackcap.
The doctor laid his surgical case on the frayed carpet in the auto.
One of those visitors, who so greatly worried the servants, brought his books and his frayedgarments from a narrow street near the Pantheon, and took up his abode in the lordly dwelling of the Lubimoffs.
His uniform was the same, frayed and old looking after some years of service; but to the Prince it seemed entirely new, even dazzling in its freshness.
I can trace the lines and crossings, though the threads arefrayed a little.
It's just a plain leather affair with a frayed rope-end still attached to the ring.
The awful strain on the old rotten harness when Cherub pulled and the vehicle was held up, caused the frayed rope mendings to part and the eager horse hurried forward, leaving his unwelcome drag behind.
The sole garment of many of the younger ones consists of a shirt, and a very frayed one at that--a costume that is eminently suitable to the palm-tree, but criminal beneath the oak.
But there are no signs of life about the place beyond that afforded by a couple of hens of worn and frayed appearance that make rapid and spiteful passes at the dust with their beaks.
This process was going on rapidly, and he stopped bending over the apparatus to examine the hook and stout snood, to see that it had not been frayed by the fish's teeth.
Frayed in half-a-dozen places by the rocks, so that the anchor parted before we'd got it weighed, and the captain was obliged to send for a diver to get the anchor up.
That pickel you are carrying was made by the best blacksmith in Grindelwald, and you can depend on its soundness; but these men are so familiar with their surroundings that they often provide themselves with frayed ropes and damaged axes.
That was the wildest absurdity in the mad jumble of events which brought him here face to face with a broken and frayed old man,--one whom he had never seen before the previous day.
Stampa produced from his pocket a frayed and tattered prayer book--an Italian edition of the Paroissien Romain.
Walter told us of a father and two sons who were on the rope in this way, the father being the lowest and his two sons being above him, when the son who was uppermost saw that the rope was being frayed above him, and was about to break.
Sometimes the rope became frayed or cut by fouling some sharp edge of rock above, and, if it broke, the fowler was landed in eternity.
Love had not died, but want of understanding, not attended to in time, had frayed the edges so that they no longer fitted well together.
A frayed suit of brown leather clung close to his giant body, and a cloak of undressed sheep-skin was slung from his shoulder.
Miss Gleason has forgotten, but she was the first girl I met in the University, when I had one suit of frayed clothes to my name, and my stock was below par.
No," acquiesced Roberts with judicial slowness; "and still a man with one suit of clothes and that decidedly frayed at the seams labors under appreciable social disadvantages even in a democratic university.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frayed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dowdy; frayed; frazzled; patchy; ragged; seedy; shabby; shoddy; tacky; tattered; threadbare; torn
