Sentence examples for fret at from inspiring English sources

Some fret at measures to curb its "right" to such technologies under the NPT.

I sometimes fret at the Americanisation of British theatre, but this import by David Lindsay-Abaire more than earns its keep.

It seems only natural to fret, at least momentarily, about the chemistry between a great orchestra and a new director, if only out of respect for the institution.

But others fret at frenzied building that might disfigure the very places the tourists come to see.Congress voted to repeal the law on the eve of the protest.

They fret at the prospect of such people controlling not only the government and parliament, as now, but the presidency as well.

The middle-aged fret at the betrayal in modern India of the nonviolent and ascetic ideals of Gandhi and at the sometimes brutal conduct of the armed forces and political class in suppressing insurgencies from Punjab to Kashmir.

This means you will do less worrying and fretting at home in the wee small hours.

Mackinnon's puffed mitts of hands fretted at his clothing and the threads burst.

"I can't be your next of kin," Josh frets at her psychiatrist's office.

India's nonpareil all-rounder Kapil Dev had meanwhile been fretting at the other end.

He was in Allende's Chile when other writers fretted, at a distance, about it.