Sentence examples for chafe against from inspiring English sources

Martial law is in effect, and the three chafe against the institution's suffocating rules.

Many chafe against the damage that they claim sanctions on Russia are causing to their economies.

Such rules chafe against the anything-goes chaos of urban life in India, Mr. Sharma said.

Early employees may also chafe against the narrowing confines of their changing roles.

And it's the last that really makes me chafe against the bonds of servitude.

She attended the rigorous, private Masters School and began to chafe against her conservative upbringing.

But Gunn was beginning to chafe against limits to her access, or status.

Later in the film, the two begin to chafe against each other.

The Arron Bankses and Nigels Farage and Lawson chafe against EU regulation: they want MORE market.

But nature continued to chafe against the will of men: last week it rained again.

And if you chafe against the strictures of an all-white meal, may I suggest an assertive Bandol rosé?