All at once, just where the pine woods frayed out to the scrub barrens, Lady Jane became quiet—too quiet.
" Nerves were frayed.
After a while their relationship frayed, and they returned from India separately.
Relationships were so frayed that within a year or so every single person on the management team was gone.
He leaves me in a wide, windowless corridor crammed with people sitting on metallic folding chairs set along the walls, others on the thin frayed carpet.
I'm a frayed knot.
We followed him through dim, grimy hallways where barefoot children dressed in frayed sweaters ambled around.
He wore a threadbare chapan worn to frayed shreds and a dirt-crusted turban.
He was looking down now, playing with the frayed edges of the straw mat.
There was nothing in the room, just a frayed rug, a few dishes, a pair of mattresses, and a lantern.
One tourist got exceedingly nervous about half-way up as he noticed that the rope by which he was suspended was old and frayed.
There were two mattresses on opposite sides of the room, a worn Herati rug with frayed edges in between, a three-legged stool, and a wooden table in the corner where Hassan did his drawings.
When she came back she handed me a letter, faded and yellow with age, the edges of the envelope worn and frayed as though it had been much handled.
At every jump too, Hands appeared still more to sink into himself and settle down upon the deck, his feet sliding ever the farther out, and the whole body canting towards the stern, so that his face became, little by little, hid from me; and at last I could see nothing beyond his ear and the frayed ringlet of one whisker.
But as Soapy set foot inside the restaurant door the head waiter's eye fell upon his frayed trousers and decadent shoes.
The sheep, eating the acorns, frayed and tore the cloak.
The edges of the shirt-collar were a little frayed, so the scissors were brought to cut them smooth.
