Fraying in a sentence

But the push for ultra-low emissions zones has also come with political backlash and fraying of political alliances.

She added that she sometimes fields phone calls in the middle of the night from widows with fraying nerves.

Support for Kyiv shows signs of fraying, however.

The kibbutz is surrounded by less feted cities, like Beersheba and Dimona, where residents historically lived in fraying, dust-covered apartment blocks.

The nerve-fraying final cutoff washed over Thursday’s audience like a leap into icy water, brass blaring and cymbals rattling.

There are several steps you can take to fix your Mac charger fraying and keep your device safe.

The social fabric is fraying, with increasing public demands for greater freedom, justice, and accountability.

Both took place as the established global order was fraying: the post-1945 rules-based international system today and the legacy of the Congress of Vienna in 1914.

For now, Biden is holding his ground, defending the purpose and function of institutions and governing processes that are needed to install Ginsburg’s successor but appear to be fraying after years of strain.

Goldfinches appear in each of the portraits in her “Identity” exhibition, and she makes them with ribbon, burning the edges to keep them from fraying over time.

Yet while a nation’s nerves were fraying back home, Scotland’s players exuded a calm authority.

Another Chinese company proposed to build a port for Sweden, but backed out amid fraying diplomatic relations between the two countries.

While Moon seems to be focused on inter-Korean ties, lurking in the background is the fraying relationship between South Korea and Japan.

Yet the same disputes over ways out of the crisis that saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson's right-wing Conservatives lose their working majority -- and make a general election appear inevitable -- are also fraying Labour on the left.

Liverpool’s coffee table book of great Anfield days acquired a fresh page with this nerve-fraying 4-3 beating of the league’s best team, who arrived with a 15-point lead while the hosts were agonising over Coutinho’s January sale to Barcelona for £145m.

With the fraying of the transatlantic alliance and an assertive Russia and China, she has acknowledged that Germany must take more of a political leadership role in Europe.

At the chromosome terminal, however, there is no nucleotide sequence in the 5' direction (and therefore no upstream RNA primer or DNA), so DNA polymerase cannot function and genetic sequence might be lost through chromosomal fraying.

By 56 BC, the bonds between the three men were fraying.

Stage Fright (1970) was engineered by musician-engineer-producer Todd Rundgren and recorded on a theatre stage in Woodstock, but the fraying of the group's once-fabled unity was beginning to show.

These tools can reach temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (538 degrees Celsius) allowing for cuts of fabric and foam materials without worry of fraying or beading.