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Usage examples of fray.

Keeping Israel and Jordan Out of the Fray If the United States were to embark on an invasion, Washington would need to keep both Jerusalem and Amman out of it.

Leaving his pack to eat their fill upon the flesh of their victims--flesh that he could not touch--Tarzan of the Apes pursued the single survivor of the bloody fray.

With great dignity he unwound his bandana handkerchief from his old fiddle and proceeded to tune for the fray.

There he was greeted by the parliamentary member, the representatives of the local council, various trembling beadles and burghers, and a squad of shrunken, bemedalled regimental pensioners in their frayed crimson tunics, ready for one final war.

As legionnaires continued to battle Woads on the back of the carriage, Tristran and Bors unleashed arrow after arrow into the fray.

One of the men held the fray while Ramon beat him with the leaded buttstock of his wrist quirt.

The Calamarian cruiser fired a storm of retaliatory bolts, while the remaining Corellian gunships spread out, launching themselves into the fray .

Then Cardiff came lunging into the fray with a mad snarl that fairly reeked of trouble, a warning that the masked man heeded on the instant.

Fray Diego Martinez was born in La Mancha, and professed in the province of Castilla in 1613.

Misiones al cargo del Colegio de Tarija, por Fray Antonio Camajuncosa.

Billy had kept Cottle on the porch past the five-minute deadline, the freak might be playing payback, making them wait so their nerves would fray a little, to teach them not to screw with the big dog.

The hero of Bern distinguished himself, as usual, in this fray, until, hearing that Nudung, the two Hun princes, and his young brother, Diether, had all been slain, he became almost insane with grief.

I think I would have preferred to see him in the Dixieland male uniform of choice: a bass-fishing T-shirt and frayed jeans.

Hackworth, whose adrenal glands had finally jumped into the endocrinological fray.

Without waiting to acknowledge him, Daryth again leaped into the fray as a Firbolg came close.