FRAY in a Sentence

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30 example sentences for FRAY, such as:

1. The three musketeers were in the thick of the fray.
2. Tempers began to fray as the two teams failed to score.
3. He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet.
4. He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
5. In this fray, each one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fray
 n.  battle, assault, or quarrel with violence; wear away by rubbing
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be the exterminators of the last.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
2  The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives and it dies there; it was only yesterday.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
4  In this fray, each one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
5  The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red glow of those salamanders of the fray.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
6  He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  Rebecca, placed on horseback before one of the Templar's Saracen slaves, was in the midst of the little party; and Bois-Guilbert, notwithstanding the confusion of the bloody fray, showed every attention to her safety.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  His armour bore all the marks of the late obstinate fray, being broken, defaced, and stained with blood in many places, and covered with clay and dust from the crest to the spur.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  You have also, no doubt, remarked that Miss Cushing has cut the cord with a scissors, as can be seen by the double fray on each side.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
10  These two," continued Ulysses, "will not keep long out of the fray, when the suitors and we join fight in my house.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
11  Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
12  A steady, though deliberate return was made from the rifle of Chingachgook, who had maintained his post throughout the fray with unmoved resolution.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
13  Heyward tore the weapon of Magua from the sapling, and rushed eagerly toward the fray.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
14  Pavel Petrovitch came into the drawing-room, all ready for the fray, irritable and determined.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  They had, besides this, used every art to lessen fatigue and danger to themselves and their soldiers, not killing in the fray, but taking prisoners and liberating without ransom.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII — HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND C...
Example Sentence:
1  The three musketeers were in the thick of the fray.
2  Tempers began to fray as the two teams failed to score.