Get to know Fraught better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like troubled or pregnant.
Fraught in a sentence
Fraught meaning
- The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
- Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
- The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
Using Fraught
- The main meaning on this page is: The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo. | Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight. | The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
- Useful related words include: troubled, pregnant, full.
- In the example corpus, fraught often appears in combinations such as: fraught with, is fraught, been fraught.
Context around Fraught
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fraught
- In this selection, "fraught" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particularly, politically, morally, production, testimony and political stand out and add context to how "fraught" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a particularly fraught application of and a politically fraught climate. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fraught" sits close to words such as assassin, chamisa and coating, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fraught
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But for all its impact, the ad has a fraught history. (11 words)
But the question about where to turn next is particularly fraught in Bologna. (13 words)
After dozens of witnesses and weeks of fraught testimony, the prosecution and defense rested. (14 words)
Although fall and winter have affectionately become known as “cuffing season” in recent years — a period where couples stay indoors, cuffed together throughout the cold months — they can also be a fraught time that puts pressures on newer relationships. (39 words)
Facial recognition, particularly what is known as one-to-many facial recognition, whereby someone’s identity is automatically inferred by matching it against a large database of faces, is a particularly fraught application of AI. (35 words)
A new book by Niyi P. Ibietan, the fruit of his doctoral research, and entitled, Cyber Politics: Social Media, Social Demography and Voting Behaviour in Nigeria, deals with this fraught, long-standing debate. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
After a fraught production finally hit theaters and capped its unexpectedly lucrative run with nearly $138 million on a $6 million budget.
After dozens of witnesses and weeks of fraught testimony, the prosecution and defense rested.
Although fall and winter have affectionately become known as “cuffing season” in recent years — a period where couples stay indoors, cuffed together throughout the cold months — they can also be a fraught time that puts pressures on newer relationships.
And her university journey was also fraught with obstacles as she suffered insomnia and chest pains while combining her studies with being Miss England.
And now that it's happened, the move by a Manhattan grand jury is deepening fissures in America's already-fraught political divide.
A new book by Niyi P. Ibietan, the fruit of his doctoral research, and entitled, Cyber Politics: Social Media, Social Demography and Voting Behaviour in Nigeria, deals with this fraught, long-standing debate.
As vacancies mount, so have the challenges of recruiting and retaining talented teachers amid a politically fraught climate.
Attempts to discuss the case with the British High Commission in the capital have, she claims, been fraught with issues.
Broader anti-camping measures can be politically and morally fraught, as well as logistically complicated.
But, as our social worlds generally operate according to norms set by neurotypical people, “fitting in” for neurodivergent people is both challenging and fraught.
But both Atiku and Obi have kicked against the results with each claiming that the election was fraught with violence and massive rigging.
But even many years later, he is fraught with trauma as he tells this the story of his escape through multiple countries and seeing many horrors along the way.
But for all its impact, the ad has a fraught history.
But the question about where to turn next is particularly fraught in Bologna.
Climate negotiations between the two countries, once a rare bright spot in a fraught relationship, have increasingly been undermined by tensions over trade, technology and human rights.
Facial recognition, particularly what is known as one-to-many facial recognition, whereby someone’s identity is automatically inferred by matching it against a large database of faces, is a particularly fraught application of AI.
For many, therefore, heterosexual interactions are fraught with the risk of unwanted sex – and of possible legal implications if a girl or young woman claims that sex is non-consensual.
For reasons I obviously can’t go into, an already fraught situation becomes even more complicated.
For regional parties, dealing with Congress is a fraught exercise anyway, beset with past resentments and present-day state-level rivalries.
Frac sand supply is a fraught business; many previous suppliers have gone bankrupt or gotten out of the sector.
Common combinations with fraught
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fraught with 81×
- is fraught 28×
- been fraught 15×
- was fraught 14×
- be fraught 11×
- fraught relationship 8×
- the fraught 8×
- already fraught 6×
- fraught and 6×
- fraught as 5×