It is possible to indulge in congenial work which will occupy her time and attention without overtaxing her strength or fraying her nerves.
It brushed the fraying clouds from the sky, leaving it a pale gray-blue, sprinkled with wan stars.
Now and then, across the dripping fields, fraying skeins of mist wandered, to lie curdled in the flooded hollows where, here and there, cattle stood lowing at intervals in a mournful key.
From the little valley through which the stream meandered, rose a curdled mist, fraying now beneath the warming sun.
On the other hand, it is just as true that what we may call the fraying resistance of a cotton thread is greater than that of linen.
The fraying is done so that they will paste down flat, and the pasting so that they will be out of the way during succeeding processes.
For if the fraying were bare and he had frayed the boughs under him, it is no token that it be a great hart, and especially if the trees where he had frayed were small.
The glaire of the edge gilding will help to stop the edges fraying out.
The fraying out of the thick cord recommended for heavy books is a more difficult operation, but with a little trouble the fibres of any good cord can be frayed out.
Among other things impossible for birds to do, these orioles tied a knot in the end of a string to prevent its fraying in the wind!
They often use strings, to be sure, in building their nests, but they use them in a sort of haphazard way, weaving them awkwardly into the structure, and leaving no loose ends that would suffer byfraying in the wind.
The twill or purl of buttonholing, as the little ridge on the edge is called, serves as a resistance for the material from fraying out.
Over-casting] Over-casting is used on unfinished or cut edges to keep them from fraying (Figure 13).
The worker ought to wear a large apron with a bib to save her dress, and a pair of linen sleeves to prevent the cuffs from frayingor soiling her work.
It is made in strands, each of which has a slight twist in it to prevent its fraying as floss does.
Seizing the hempen strands, he ground his teeth deeply and with scientific skill, into their fraying recesses.
Versed in the patience-fraying ways of pups in general, the Mistress and the Master marveled and bragged and praised.
This can be made either by fraying out the material or by adding a detached fringe, either knotting it in or attaching it in some other way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fraying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
