(1) The collar had started to fray on Jack's raincoat.

(2) Tempers began to fray in the hot weather.

(3) It was fashionable to fray the bottoms of your jeans.

(4) After an hour of waiting, tempers began to fray .

(5) Why should you get involved in their fray?

(6) He launched himself into the fray.

(7) Three civilians were injured during the fray.

(8) Tempers soon began to fray .

(9) Nerves / Tempers began to fray in the heat.

(10) Constant rubbing will fray even the thickest rope.

(11) Are you ready for the fray?

(12) Talk turned to money and tempers began to fray.

(13) The stitching had begun to fray at the edges.

(14) The other soldiers quickly joined the fray, launching missile attacks in the city.

(15) Tempers began to fray as the two teams failed to score.

(16) This kind of living was beginning to fray her nerves.

(17) Her washing machine tends to fray edges on intricate designs.

(18) He is raring to charge into the fray and lay down the law.

(19) Alyssia felt her temper begin to fray.

(20) Their tempers are starting to fray.

(21) The state-controlled television threw itself vigorously into the fray.

(22) Home venture, will enter the fray next month.

(23) Thousands of ordinary people were forced into the fray.

(24) Current students joined the fray as well.

(25) Slow sideboard sparkler, we watch its wadding softly fray.

(26) His friend van Rappard joined the fray, urging him to stay put, as he was doing.

(27) He would be inspiring young people to get into the political fray.

(28) There will have to be a second round of voting when new candidates can enter the fray.

(29) At 71, he has now retired from the political fray.

(30) Without the unifying forces of the army and the monarchy, it seems, the nation would begin to fray at the edges.

(1) The collar had started to fray on Jack's raincoat.

(2) Tempers began to fray in the hot weather.

(3) It was fashionable to fray the bottoms of your jeans.

(4) After an hour of waiting, tempers began to fray .

(31) The banquet recommenced but the fray had dampened and soured the atmosphere.

(32) At this point the Skeleton rejoins the fray, driven into frenzy by its realisation.

(33) It was also among the first to plunge into the Internet fray.

(34) He is shaken, and resolves to return to the fray.

(35) Scientists like to think of themselves as above the fray, or aside the fray, or objective observers of the fray.

(36) Aunt Edie heard yelling, joyous sounds from Betsy and Patsy as their dad entered the fray.

(37) Lord Joseph is now 71, in the House of Lords and out of the political fray.

(38) The field is being actively investigated and is at an exciting stage; computational chemists have entered the fray.

(39) Two Hearthwares, huge in their armour, lumbered over to join in the fray.

(40) The army, long seen as standing above the fray, dirtied its reputation in Kashmir earlier this year.

(41) The hand gunners hopefully rally to rejoin the fray or continue to shoot at approaching enemy.

(42) In the supper room Auguste lined up his troops for the fray.

(43) Credit-card companies have entered the fray, offering an additional 15 to 20 percent off service charges if their card is used.

(44) Ted returned to the fray after a scoreless first half and played at outside-right.

(45) This, of course, was before the Denver Broncos and Buffalo Bills decided to enter the fray.

(46) Gradually, the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful.

(47) It is, after all, in their joint interest to seem at least a teeny bit above the fray.

(48) He is said, despite his years, to be fit, lucid and raring to re-enter the political fray.

(49) Staying above the fray(), he has gone about his duties and watched his approval ratings rise.

(50) Transformational leadership at the whole-organization level, then, involves more than engaging in the daily fray.

(51) Hekmatyar's fighters quickly joined the fray, launching long-range missile attacks into the city against Masud's forces.

(52) In that story there is no denouement, just the relish in the fray itself.

(53) What is slightly more unusual is that Congress has simultaneously joined the fray.

(54) Luckily, the boys heard the scuffle and ran out to throw themselves into the fray.

(55) He must both get into the fray and seem above it, another neat trick.

(56) Anyone working with Mr Gates must take decisions on the spot; studies and committees fray the billionaire's patience.

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(57) This, he believed, would spur us on before we entered the fray.

(58) Yet there are still a smattering of pop ironists trickling sporadically, lip-first into the fray.

(59) Many new lenders have entered the fray - High Street banks, foreign banks, specialist lenders and insurance companies.

(60) If they want to be part of the team they have to join the fray.

(61) But the outcome is neither random, nor completely orderly: probability has entered into the fray.

(62) Kazanow grins sheepishly at the cheers before rejoining the fray below, the easy warmth between band and benefactor plainly apparent.

(63) Clinton returned to the electoral fray last week to get out the black and Hispanic vote in California and the south.

(64) It was only three o'clock and tempers were already beginning to fray.

(65) She said she always made a point to stay above the fray and concentrate on her work.

(66) Your first impulse was to step into the fray, select a likely teacher, and present yourself for instruction.

(67) Then King jumped into the fray and tried to persuade Republicans to replace Gingrich with Rep.

(68) Finally, Yusuf led into the fray his own Black Guards, consisting of 4000 men.

(69) At that moment Nusbaum was hurrying back from another meeting to join the fray if he could.

(70) Refreshments would be served in the salon, while the combatants donned their battle gear for the fray in the changing room.

(71) The exception appeared to be the fray in Lusaka.

(72) My fingers itch for a fray.

(73) Rebel groups from Darfur might even join the fray.

(74) In more recent years, telephony has entered this fray, and the desire to make Web programs accessible over normal phone lines has come into vogue.

(75) GM's strategy of offering a multiplicity of brands started to fray.

(76) The latest announcement suggests that security has entered the fray as a new differentiator.

(77) The horns howl into the fray, trying in their own turn to convey one of the cadenza's motives.

(78) The first blow makes the anger, but the second makes the fray.

(79) Benjamin Robins then entered the fray with articles and a book.

(80) I always listen first. And then, inevitably(), I join the fray.

(81) The entry of SkyRiver into the fray disrupts that dynamic, countering a massive global organization with a new element of competition.

(82) The theory is that post-holiday blues combined with the end of the summer and no more bank holidays until Christmas conspire together to make August 30 the day tempers will fray .

(83) He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray.

(84) Any tyro collector entering the fray at Frieze should first read The $12m Stuffed Shark by economist Don Thompson.

(85) The two gangsters seemed to be eager for the fray.

(86) The relationship between the two companies began to fray after Mr. Hurd resigned from H.P. last month.

(87) AI - Neither friends nor enemies charge blindly into the fray.

(88) Labrum injury including fray, tear and shift, has already been one of the most important factors that cause joint pain, instability and degeneration.

(89) At one point Conservative MP and Exmoor Society vice-president Ian Liddell-Grainger waded into the fray, demanding action to find the culprits and declaring himself 'bloody furious'.

(90) She encouraged the hospitable impulse and promised in advance to hurl herself into the fray.

(91) Now, an industrial accident—a gaseous explosion in the piping of the polemical Botnia plant in Fray Bento, Uruguay on February 27th—has fuelled the dispute anew.

(92) Saudi Arabia, now the Arabs'diplomatic heavyweight, has joined the fray too.

(93) When the Joker enters one fray with a murderous flourish and that sawed-off smile, his morbid grin a mirror of the Black Dahlia's ear-to-ear grimace, your nervous laughter will die in your throat.

(94) Tu Wei - yueh and Chien Pao - sheng had both been injured in the fray.

(95) She entered the fray wielding a wooden soup ladle at the tiger - which fled.

(96) Nicolas Rossignol is one of the best examples of a new generation of Burgundy wine makers whose great wines lie in the future rather than the past, entering the fray in 1994.

(97) I'll also look at Universal Business Language (UBL), a new entrant to the fray of business interchange formats.

(98) For one cannot destroy another without destroying oneself; and the nuclear bomb detonated was large enough to cause radioactive dust to reach the soil of Lemuria, causing the Polynesian DNA to fray.