fraying in English

verb
1
(of a fabric, rope, or cord) unravel or become worn at the edge, typically through constant rubbing.
cheap fabric soon frays
synonyms:unravelwearwear thinwear out/throughbecome worn
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "fraying" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "fraying", or refer to the context using the word "fraying" in the English Dictionary.

1. Aglets are metal tips for laces to prevent fraying and ease threading

2. I will not stand idle while my son's life dangles by fraying thread.

3. As a result, the Aglets prevent fraying at the ends of the shoelaces

4. Synonyms for Abrading include scraping, chafing, rasping, scratching, eroding, rubbing, grazing, wearing, fraying and corroding

5. Clean cut's fray resistant properties allows frequent expansion at the cut end without fraying or unraveling

6. TELOMERES are to chromosomes what plastic caps are to shoelaces - they stop them fraying at the ends .

7. When a writer needs a particularly obscure fact, it seems the go-to subject is the Aglet, the plastic or metal tip on a shoelace that prevents fraying

8. Angled is the WORLD'S FIRST PATENT PENDING UNIVERSAL AND CUSTOMIZABLE headphone and cell phone charger attachment that goes over your existing cable to keep it from fraying/breaking

9. An Aglet is a device that secures each end of a shoelace and prevents it from fraying, making it easier to thread the shoelace through the holes in a shoe ("Tip of the Day").

10. Titan Compound & Recurve Bowstring Wax Ideal for today's synthetic Bowstrings, Titan's Compound & Recurve Bowstring Wax helps lengthen your strings life by reducing fraying and protecting your string from dust, dirt, and moisture

11. Hello, This term is used commonly to describe the lesion of the soft cartilagenous structure known as glenoid labrum surrounding the shoulder joint .Mid fraying & Blunting is seen in grade 1 lesion of labrum where there is loss of early smoothness & round contour …

12. They skewed, Brustled and bumped along, the crates wabbled and warped from side to side, the riders screamed, cross-bit, frumped and hooted at each other; they lost control of their crazy vehicles, their bows struck and parted with a violent rebound; one went giddying round and round, fraying and sputtering the snow, and dashed against Margaret

13. This page is a cloud between whose fraying edges a headland with mountains appears Brokenly then is hidden again until what emerges from the now cloudless blue is the grooved sea and the whole self-naming island, its ochre verges, its shadow-plunged valleys and a coiled road threading the fishing villages, the white, silent surges of combers along the coast, where a line of gulls has arrowed