Example sentences for: chafing

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

  • The tyrannical president pretends to get beat up by popular wrestlers chafing under his authority, and WWF fans go wild.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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