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Example sentences for: chafing
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Scrambled eggs are not an easy dish to cook in such a way that hungry men turn away in discouragement, yet the scrambled eggs Eleanor Roosevelt always made in a chafing dish for Sunday night supper were undeniably discouraging.
The NYT reports that travel agents are really chafing over airlines' discounts for Internet ticket purchases.
The 737 inspections ordered by the FAA last week (which USAT alone led with on Friday) were apparently well warranted: 13 of the first 26 fuel main fuel pump wires checked showed wear on their insulation, says USAT . The WP is a little more reader-friendly about the actual number of planes involved: it says every one of the first 13 planes checked show some insulation chafing (the NYT , in its front-page story, says instead that this was true of a majority of the first 13 planes looked at), and that the grounding order affects 179 U.S. planes and 193 others worldwide.
(I was Richard's colleague for six years, and student for one; I know his chafing very well.)
The tyrannical president pretends to get beat up by popular wrestlers chafing under his authority, and WWF fans go wild.