Sentence examples for chafing in from inspiring English sources

Watching fellow competitors stagger around camp like zombies in the mornings – tired, sore and nursing crocked knees, blistered feet or chafing in unmentionable places – was comic at times.

If relationships are supposed to be vulnerable to the seven-year itch, TV fiction is at risk of chafing in the second year, as Homeland shows.

But by the early '60s he was leading the sort of gray-flannel life of which he despaired, chafing in New York as a salesman for an electronics concern.

While Churchill was still chafing in London about his generals' delay in resuming the offensive in Egypt, Montgomery waited for seven weeks after ʿAlam al-Halfaʾ in order to be sure of success.

And when Mr. Bamundo found work after college in a management training program at Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield -- and consequently found himself chafing in the suit and the cubicle -- it was Ms. Bamundo who urged him to get out.

"Big Little Lies" is based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, one of many recent dishy dark comedies about liberal moms chafing in their marriages, reduced to competing for spots in the school parking lot.

Some of the most miserable hours I've ever spent in a ballpark were in that humid chafing dish in midsummer in the mid-60's, when anybody who could afford to leave town had gone to the beach or gone home for Congressional recess.

Webb might well have chafed in an Obama Administration.

An accomplished violinist as a child, the young Ms. Tuttle chafed in the classroom.

Bereft of the spiritual purity of his time with his grandfather, he chafes in his parents' world of bourgeois propriety.

Some Big Three executives chafe, in private, at the union's inability to organize foreign automakers' plants.