What is "fraying"

Usage examples of "fraying".

She hated him, but the thought of him hanging at the end of a fraying rope, battered by falling rocks, brought her no pleasure.

Each sound was a knife sliding over the leash of his self-control, fraying it, until finally his hands slid down to her wrist and his fingers interlocked deeply with her own.

He was hot and sticky and his fraying T-shirt was smeared in long streaks of green-yellow sap from the broken creepers.

Those that remained were vacuum ablating, their edges fraying like worn cloth, while their flat surfaces slowly dissolved, reducing their overall thickness.

The girders and panels of the counter-rotating spaceport appeared to be fraying with age.

They hung an inverted cross above his skull, dangling by a rope that was fraying and rotting.

The line was strong, and the individual nylon strands were fraying slowly.

Upon his head is a velvet cap with a swinging tassel on a fraying thread.

My hand goes to my throat—a curious thing, for my mother's portrait lies with my jewels, its ribbon fraying, I have not worn it in years.

He rummaged on the desk until he found a scrap of old parchment, scraped many times and fraying, to write his note to Luap.

That, and a length of tarnished, gold-colored ribbon, elaborately knotted into a fraying flower, through which the red silk had been lovingly threaded.

Rhiow spent a good while looking over the interrelationships of the Grand Central gates with the Penn complex, making sure there were no accidental overlaps or frayings of the master patterns, which needed to remain discrete.