Sentence examples for slightly fraught from inspiring English sources
The phrase "slightly fraught" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or relationship that is somewhat tense or filled with anxiety, but not overwhelmingly so.
Example: "The meeting was slightly fraught, as tensions were high among the team members discussing the project."
Alternatives: "somewhat tense" or "a bit strained".
Izzard's interview is a slightly fraught affair as the two titanic comedians compete to out-funny each other.
The woman speaks patiently, intelligently, with a slightly fraught lucidity, and one does not immediately notice the absolute devastation of her sentences.
Yes, I could call them on that mobile, but it's funny how often you get the voicemail, and then, when they ring back, slightly fraught at having missed my call, I'm in a meeting (with somebody who is there).
The Premier League loves its big personality operettas and Costa will now make headlines for his apparent sulkiness at being left out for the whole of this slightly fraught 0-0 draw.
Instead it is tribute to football's basic difficulty, its endless human variables, that City's attempts to become the greatest team on earth should boil down, for now, to the slightly fraught personal relationship between a 33‑year‑old inherited part and a super‑manager who seems to have become obsessed with "second balls", to be in his own way agreeably drunk on English football.
I know this after a slightly fraught flight to London, trying to read the book while covering its pictures of masturbating women with my boarding card—I did not want to offend the sensibilities of an Indian gentleman, who showed a polite interest in my reading material.
The cooking is slightly more fraught, because milk-based custard is easier to curdle than a cream-based one, so watch it even more carefully.
For the rest, they offer devices (their skirts used like bull-fighting capes; their skirts removed and laid in a line; a man whirling a ribbon through the air) as the impetus for the movement, as section after section arrives with predictable evenness, each feeling slower and slightly more fraught than the last.
Cecco del Caravaggio's youth throws a sidelong glance fraught with slightly menacing innuendo, as if either he or we shouldn't really be there in this room full of spotlit fruit and expensive glass vessels.
It introduces the percussive, narratively complex videos of Aida Ruilova, which are fraught with an air of slightly muffled domestic hysteria.
The following year, he and the slightly gauche new prime minister, John Major, took part in the fraught Maastricht treaty negotiations that created the modern European Union.
