Sentence examples for fray upon from inspiring English sources
The larger area than just a disk was expected, as the end may fray upon cutting, and the surface is nanostructured.
In the days before Google this was a demanding procedure that could be relied upon to fray tempers on both sides.
As she discovers upon entering the fray, arguing politics with friends in Paris is no preparation for the rough and tumble of the real thing.
This calls for sending one shopper into the fray while another immediately gets in line upon entering a store.
Hoping that the matter would be resolved fairly and quickly, little could we imagine that the greatest minds of religion would be called upon to enter into this fray at a convention years later.
Upon release, "Closer" reportedly drew comparisons to The Fray's 2005 track "Over My Head (Cable Car)." Now, ASCAP lists the Fray lead singer Isaac Slade and guitarist Joe King as co-writers of "Closer" on their website.
When called upon, he would put down his pen and enter the fray, more often than not emerging bruised and bloodied.
That is not to deprecate the service rendered by, say, John Glenn, but simply to remind ourselves that political ambition, like our other passions, is in the end a low sublunary affair; and that Armstrong, by dint of being the first man to tread not upon terra firma but upon the gray dust of terra incognita, rose above the fray and stayed there.
