English example sentences with "frayed"

Detective Columbo is always in a frayed raincoat.

The cuffs of his suit jacket are badly frayed.

That extension cord looks dangerous to me. You see where it's frayed there?

Tom purchased several yards of screening from the hardware store to replace the old mesh in the window screens, since the mesh had become too frayed and torn to serve its purpose.

Frayed electrical cables can be very dangerous.

It's all frayed.

The fabric was frayed.

My nerves are frayed.

The constant noise from the construction site exacerbated Tom's headache and exasperated his already-frayed nerves.

As he approached the south-west corner of the square he saw something that jarred his already frayed nerves.

Tom's shirt was frayed.