Example sentences for: chafing

How can you use “chafing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.


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