Example sentences for: chafing

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

  • And many of them, my doctor included, are chafing under the book-keeping requirements and restrictions on their professional discretion that are prominent features of the new medical regime.

  • At the U.S. Naval Academy, McCain the youngest followed in his grandfather's and father's rascally steps by performing poorly as a student and chafing under the hazing that "plebes" were expected to accept.

  • Soon erstwhile Photo-Secessionists were chafing under the harness, but Strand immediately took to the more conservative elements, and between 1911 and 1913 he produced appropriately languid views of shimmering water; decorative sheep; and unfocused, mildly erotic light effects.

  • The NYT reports that travel agents are really chafing over airlines' discounts for Internet ticket purchases.

  • Indeed, I can imagine as I write this Richard chafing to intervene and to say that libertarianism has lots to say to these problems.


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