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Example sentences for: frayed

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Dressed in frayed shorts and sandals, blond hair flowing, Helgeland looked as if he had stashed his surfboard behind the stage and couldn't wait to escape into the waves crashing outside.
Understandably, locals’ patience can get a bit frayed by the end of summer.
Rowling's phenomenally popular Harry Potter books will recognize the Sorting Hat as a magical wizard's hat, pointed and "patched and frayed and extremely dirty," that assigns new students at Hogwarts, the boarding school for aspiring wizards, to one of four houses--Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin.
More miscellany: Capitalizing on frayed relations between British Telecom and MCI, WorldCom outbid BT by offering $30 billion for MCI.
This year as always, Paris fashion has meant fabulous-looking girls slinking along in foot-high hair or plastered-flat hair with grim or giddy hats and stark painted faces, sporting fitted tops, transparent tops, cutout tops, tight skirts slit to here, full skirts trailing to there, floppy pants or skinny pants, trimmings that glitter or flutter, colors that dazzle or puzzle, curled feathers and dyed fur, boiled wool and frosted leather, crushed velvet, shot silk, frayed hemp, and distressed plastic.