Sentence examples for frazzle from inspiring English sources

"frazzle" is a real word and is used in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is feeling very stressed and overwhelmed, for example: "John was starting to feel frazzled after a long day of work."

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frazzle

verb

To fray or wear down, especially at the edges.

  • The new puppy has been chewing on everything, and my favorite afghan has become frazzled.

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And since in all this frazzle they had little time to shop, she offered them from 1976 onwards, when the brand was launched in top department stores like Saks and Bloomingdale's—separates filed on adjoining racks, to be plucked from the hangers at speed.The undertow of defiance in all this was quite deliberate.

Shattered by injuries and with their bullpen worn to a frazzle, the Yankees have lost six of their last nine games.

Many short, parallel strokes are sandwiched together in compact ranks and stacks — a lively idea that attains no traction in the over-all frazzle.

At full volume it won't frazzle your nerves.

When you push these guys to a frazzle, it's tough".

"My mind is a frazzle," he said over dinner, taking a big sip of a Belvedere and tonic.

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DeMarco is a nonchalant goofball whose slacker self-deprecation ("We got nothing else to do") and wayward frazzle-rock suits the genial tempo of a blazingly hot afternoon.

Encounters with Christopher Marlowe and the Earl of Croydon open theatrical doors, although the real behind-the-scenes director is Spain's King Phillip II (Ben Willbond, co-writing with Laurence Rickard), who's planning to kill Helen McCrory's frazzle-toothed Elizabeth.

"I still insist on putting frazzle-dazzle around my keyboard," she said.

But what does it all mean as Europe gently frazzles and David Goodhart, ex-editor of Prospect, now director of the Demos thinktank, pens an ambitious FT article (paywall) promoting a new settlement for British politics, what he calls "post-liberalism"?

TL DR: Aussies rule Coachella, which Parker calls "the world's best festival" as they leave the audience with their synapses fully frazzled.

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