1. Guitars and lutes are fretted musical instruments.

2. Constant use had fretted the sandal strap to the breaking point.

3. The stream from the mountain slope fretted a channel through the soft earth along the mountain foot.

4. The chain has fretted into the wood and damaged it.

5. Heather fretted, accused,(/fretted.html) threatened to call the police.

6. Jenny fretted, wrung her hands.

7. There were empty arched pigeonholes at the back, fretted and carved, and two empty little drawers.

8. Late Victorian spin doctors fretted about the contempt in which the throne was held.

9. Last, but not least, workers have fretted about being displaced by machines ever since the invention of the printing press.

10. They fretted that their personnel responsibilities would be inordinately demanding of their time and energy.

11. As Father Maier fretted over the course of the meeting, Ray McGovern reveled in his momentary success.

12. Amelia fretted that the press overplayed accidents, but there was nothing she could do about it; news was news.

13. Yet, while many of his followers fretted about it, de Gaulle viewed the situation with remarkable sang-froid.

14. So I fretted and sweated as they stalked in and stared around with that disapproving, accusatory look of all cops everywhere.

15. They fretted at Reno's tendency to give negotiations one last chance when the going got rough.

16. Worried parents fretted that their children would be exposed to X-rated happenings.

17. While the pigeons fretted up and down the sidewalk with their hands folded behind their backs.

18. Businessmen fretted that no good could come of such defiance; students delighted in the courage of their mainland counterparts.

19. There was so much to achieve and I fretted endlessly about the work that was needed to co-ordinate it all.

20. She fretted about all the bad influences(), all the temptations to idleness which surrounded her sons.

21. George fretted away a whole year there until the Allies landed in Sicily.

22. He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.

23. Mahogany doors, mahogany banisters, fretted mahogany in an arch over the landing.

24. The metal is fretted with the acid.

25. The breeze fretted the surface of the water.

26. I drank soda - water and smoked and fretted.

27. The lady's fame for hitting the mark fretted him.

28. The job was a cage where the wild man in me fretted and chafed.

29. But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.

30. Jean-Luc Roussel himself had come to the hospital and fretted and fluttered about like a true Cockney sparrow.

31. The acid fretted the metal.

32. The continual noise fretted the woman's nerves.

33. Dr. McEwan fretted irritably as he withdrew the otoscope from old Rudy's ear.

34. It was fretted and over - stimulated and inflamed and fored into the nationalist mould.

35. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart.

36. A stringed instrument of a long, fretted fingerboard with resonating gourds at each end.

37. In it, he fretted over the failure to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant character flaws.

38. We had all remarked, during some time,[http:///fretted.html] that Miss Linton fretted and pined over something.

39. But she could not tranquillise herself with these reflections : a feeling akin to remorse fretted her, when she thought of her visit.

40. On July 7th the KBW Bank index of American commercial-bank shares fell to its lowest level since 1997, as investors fretted about rising credit losses.

41. Stailman fretted that if computer scientists could no longer learn from one another's code, the art of programming would stagnate.

42. The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations.

43. The wind whistled through the twigs and fretted the occasional, dirty - looking crocuses.

44. Analysts said that below-average trading volume and a drop in open interest are signs that bullion investors lacked conviction as they fretted over the European debt situation.

45. Baseball legend Yogi Berra is said to have fretted, “I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

46. A stringed instrument of India that has a long, fretted fingerboard with resonating gourds at each end.

47. Pessimists fretted that a flood of imports would destroy Indian industry.

48. She fretted, however, at last, over the lack of stability.

49. Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the16th and17th centuries, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.

50. The chair has fretted into the wood and damaged it.

51. A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.

52. And a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.

53. Constant use had fretted sandal strap to the breaking point.

54. Elegantly detailed with fretted wood and intricate lacework, the homes have fallen into disrepair, despite government efforts to preserve them.

55. "The problem is the shoot will be on Monday, but I will be in L.A. for meetings, which means for four days it's me alone in this giant, empty S.U.V. in the city of the Prius, " Mr. Seo fretted.

56. All of Europe fretted after the terror attacks in London.

57. He fumed and fretted and did not know what was the matter.

58. For eight more days Don Quixote worried and fretted over this problem.

59. Auto stocks recovered a bit after being hit hard at the start of the week, notably in Germany, as the market fretted that China's interest-rate hike might bite into car demand.