Sentence examples for in a fray from inspiring English sources

Stephen O'Connor, 22, and Michael O'Connor, 23, brothers from Medfield, Mass., were also charged with assault and battery, participating in a fray, and being disorderly.

One witness said he had seen Mr. Gonzalez in a fray that resembled a football pileup, and Mr. Cruz was being struck with knives, fists and razor blades.

(Sinagra) HOT HOT HEAT (Tonight) In a fray of 80's revival bands with interchangeable frontmen, this Canadian outfit boasts the more memorable bounce of curlicued leader Steve Bays.

Yet getting too involved in a fray without considering the sensitivities of your audience can alienate clients, customers and even personal friends.

about the few hundred people graduating today, but these 12 years we've been stuck in a fray.

I thought then of Rupert Brooke and his poem "The Soldier," which I have carried in a fraying, folded paper to distant wars.

Viewed through the prism of today, 2000 almost takes on sepia tones, like grainy black-and-white photos in a fraying album.

Mr. Cavallo's difficulties in Congress are rooted in a fraying governing coalition and in the weak standing of President Fernando de la Rúa in the polls.

Last week, Collins, the founder and artistic director of Elevator Repair Service, and its resident genie, sat perched at a table on the mezzanine of the Public Theatre, dressed in a fraying T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, running his hands through his graying hair.

Temple has no stadium on campus, hemorrhages at least $2.5 million a year in red ink on an $8 million football budget, plays in the geographically awkward Mid-American Conference, struggles for visibility and fan support in a city consumed by its professional teams and sits on 115 acres in a frayed north Philadelphia neighborhood.

The 27-year-old Iraqi Kurd, classified by the local refugee centre as a "destitute asylum-seeker" and in a fraying relationship with the mother of his two children, had lost the legal aid he needed to pursue his application to remain in the UK.