1 Everyone is gibbering insanely, nerves frayed as showtime approaches.

2 He had frayed the bottom of his jeans.

3 The carpet was badly frayed.

4 He wore frayed jeans and cowboy shirts.

5 The argument frayed their nerves.

6 Tempers were getting very frayed.

7 Tempers frayed as thousands of motorists began the Christmas holiday with long waits in traffic jams.

8 I'd frayed the edges of my jeans as that was the fashion in those days.

9 The stairway carpet is so frayed it threatens to unravel.

10 His shirt was frayed.

11 Frayed tempers at the end of the match led to three players being sent off.

12 This old jumper of mine is frayed at the sleeve cuff.

13 Relations between us have become frayed through a series of misunderstandings.

14 A lot of pretty melodies with some frayed edges.

15 The edges are frayed,() with the ends sloughing off.

16 Frayed edges, broken by a very below average human finger, nearly fit round corners of chipped cream-painted cream furniture.

17 Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number.

18 He had dutifully nurtured a six-hair goatee and frayed the bottom of his jeans.

19 A sweep of light remained between frayed brocade curtains, without a gleam on the parquet floor.

20 A high wind frayed the sails of clouds until a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold.

21 Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.

22 Delicate chairs with frayed green silk upholstery were placed round the walls.

23 His bare feet could identify all the frayed patches on the long ribbon of carpet and each worn tread on the stairs.

24 By the end of the meal her nerves were completely frayed.

25 David D. is always well briefed, usually good-humoured, though he was looking a little frayed by the small hours of Friday.

26 She opened it, slipped her hand inside and pulled out an old frayed envelope.

27 We went into a living room in which there was old furniture, a worn rug, and a frayed velvet sofa.

28 He would have thrown out the shirt with the slightly frayed cuff and straightened his shoulders.

29 The gilding was flaking off a clumsy clasp and some stitches had broken on the handle, leaving it frayed and shabby.

30 Though it was a warm day, he was wearing his old faded high-necked sweater with a frayed shirt collar showing.

1 Everyone is gibbering insanely, nerves frayed as showtime approaches.

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.

37 is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

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.

61 Nerves became severely frayed when air traffic problems delayed the flight.

62 He wore an old double-breasted suit, frayed gray shirt, wide tie, no hat "I left her so long ago I don't remember.