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Example sentences for: chafing

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Indeed, I can imagine as I write this Richard chafing to intervene and to say that libertarianism has lots to say to these problems.
The tyrannical president pretends to get beat up by popular wrestlers chafing under his authority, and WWF fans go wild.
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.
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.