Sentence examples for start to chafe from inspiring English sources

But even the most expensive garment can start to chafe if it doesn't fit properly.

The "secondary characters" of his life, as he refers to them, start to chafe at their protagonist.

But then, as the months turn into years, such precautions start to chafe and, when the restrictions on taking fluids on aeroplanes were lifted, most of us were mightily relieved.

The restless camera captures both the tactile intimacy of the sisters – they sprawl lazily, limbs entwined, as their fates are decided elsewhere – and the mounting tension as they start to chafe against the lives that have been ordained for them.

Understandably, they are starting to chafe.

While bowing to her wishes, some business interests are starting to chafe under Ms. Rousseff's interventionist policies.

Anna is a committed proselytizer for her faith, while Sander is starting to chafe at his life within the church.

"The reality of foreign troops on the streets is starting to chafe," Mr. Bremer told the Senate panel.

"The reality of foreign troops on the streets is starting to chafe," Mr. Bremer said this week in Washington.

It was an old-media mission I started to chafe at — opinion writing within the constraints of newspaper deadlines and formats.

But the state's counties -- which must pick up roughly 17percentt of Medicaid costs -- are starting to chafe under this weight of services.