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Example sentences for: friction

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The word was certainly hard to escape in the Torbay area in the early 1970s, and by then often had a derisive flavour, as friction increased between young locals and young summer visitors.
Holds range from friction through thin to jug handles . A large hold at the end of a hard pitch is often called a thank-God hold . A very small hold that depends on the friction between the climber's boot and the rock is a smear . When the climber uses the inside edge of his boot on a very narrow hold, he is edging .
The decline of these territories was drawn out and painful, leaving problems in its wake that have been the source of trouble and friction in the Balkans and the Middle East ever since.
Saito said trade friction will be inevitable this year in certain sectors, such as steel, but that the good performance of the American economy has so far prevented such friction from becoming serious.
Twenty-seven countries have sprouted out of the former Soviet bloc, and ethnicity has replaced ideology as Europe's primary source of friction.