frayed造句
31 It was on the second day that tempers, already frayed, finally ripped.
32 All the wiring was exposed and frayed, and small lizards ran across the ceiling.
33 Blocked roads, wildcat action and frayed nerves tested the patience of commuters and consumers across the continent.
34 The frayed leopard skin, that left one muscled shoulder bare, of the strong-man lion tamer.
35 A flour sack covering his face, the frayed corner of it tucked under his collar.
36 Tim noticed that they looked shabby, their clothes were worn at the edges, the collars dull and frayed.
37 The local magistrate might not believe in the frayed elastic, either, if the McReady family were pillars of the kirk.
38 Their frayed bodies lie rotting in drifts on the surface of the streams and are washed up in piles on the sandbanks.
39 And so I lose sleep over mute facts and frayed ends and missing witnesses.
40 She used Rosalind's flashlight to take her across the kitchen's frayed linoleum to the corridor.
41 By the second year of the business, frayed nerves exploded into heated arguments.
42 Glover felt like a frayed old electrical cord that some one had just shoved into a wall socket.
43 Tempers frayed in the stifling atmosphere of blaring speakers and flashing lights.
44 When he gets closer we can see that one of his shirt cuffs is unbuttoned and the sleeve is frayed.
45 It was rumoured that banknotes were never withdrawn from circulation but simply frayed away.
46 Nerves get frayed, and a mood of extremism prevails.
47 The champion, too, looked frayed at the edges.
48 When the fibers broke, fiber ends were mangled and frayed.
49 The edge of the carpet was frayed into a fringe.
50 He stopped stock still, his frayed trousers soaking in the slush, and peered foolishly in.
51 Trousers were all warped and frayed at the bottom and coats worn and faded.
52 So it was, that because of the unhappy leave-taking, no one noticed the insulation smoldering on the frayed wires in the old barn. None saw the first spark fall.
53 The Visual Test See if your belts are frayed or torn.
54 The ends of the sleeves of his coat were frayed and ragged.
55 He watched her open the reticule; he watched her count onto the desk twenty-five dollars in frayed bills and coins ranging down to nickels and dimes and pennies. (William Faulkner.
56 Chandler : ( trying to untangle her ) Some of these look a little frayed.
57 He watched her open the reticule; he watched her count onto the desk twenty-five dollars in frayed bills and coins ranging down to nickels and dimes and pennies.
58 From his frayed woolen vest he extracted a watch and placed it on the table.
59 By the time I got home they had frayed so much they resembled two small sheep, but I wore them faithfully for two months until I had to scrub up for a party in Venice.
60 The head waiter's eye fell upon his frayed trousers and decadent shoes.
123