Use "fretting" in a sentence

1. sixth year and the authorities were already fretting, faced with

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2. things would work out for the best, rarely fretting no matter how late Danny was, and he was

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3. So you just sit there have a drink and stop fretting about those good for nothings at the bar I will sit here and look after you don’t worry

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4. The litany of abuses predicated in the name of free expression, or proxy ―decisions‖ made on behalf of others who are unable to make informed decisions, are understood by the hordes of mentally ill people roaming the streets, who should be otherwise institutionalized for their own safety, if not for the safety of our society, for that matter, who remain on the streets, unable to properly care for themselves, mandated by civil rights organizations fearful that their rights may be jeopardized, people otherwise incapable of making a rational assessment of their own condition; not to mention conferring legitimacy to sexual deviancy in all its varieties that many of us have casually resigned ourselves to as ―simply‖ alternative lifestyles or championing (equal) protection under the law, that, in some instances, should call for censorship, or implausible assumptions regarding the ―unborn,‖ (Abortion) remanding millions of innocents to an early grave, a convenience for women fretting over their figures or professional careers, abetted by spineless politicians, who for expediency sake, continue advancing legislation denying them (―unborn‖) their own inalienable right to choose, had they the means, or encouraging a culture of death (Euthanasia) for the convenience of (the) would-be custodians of the terminally ill or perhaps to (simply) reduce the increasing costs of Healthcare, or the legalization of drugs because that too is a convenient alternative for a number of individuals who have seemingly lost the will to rid our society of rampant drug abuse and therefore justify such (hare-brained) schemes from the vantage point of opportunity savings or reduced social costs, or movements to eliminate God from the public consciousness lest society be reminded of its sins or perhaps because many of us have (conveniently) chosen to become our own gods

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5. From a logical standpoint, there was really nothing I could do, so watching and fretting about it wouldn’t be of any help

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6. 52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire

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7. 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, note, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean

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8. is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire

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9. (The word "fretting" is Strong's H3992 and is ma'ar and means to make bitter or cause bitter pain

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10. 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it

11. during the month that followed, fretting that she could be pregnant

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12. He’d learned not to waste precious energy fretting

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13. And of how much more value are you than many birds! Besides, all of your anxiety or fretting doubts can do nothing to supply your material needs

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14. She spent her evenings with my mother fretting over Harold’s

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15. JY was fretting

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16. Tim was fretting but still smoking up the stash which I suggested he give back but he decided against that so we both got blazed

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17. preoccupied and fretting over unfinished business

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18. Again, it got me to thinking; how could I waste so much of my life fretting over the selfish wants of the flesh, the lesser things of life, and not have focused on that which is true and forever? This wasn’t a bad feeling, no, not by a long shot, but instead very comical, even to the point that I laughed out-loud

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19. Need to stop fretting over Suong

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20. He was too busy fretting about

21. “You’re still fretting over this Kobayashi test?” Tammas asked

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22. still fretting about Takina

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23. It was time he put his mind to that endeavor and cease fretting about what could have been and should have been

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24. Let us never give way to a fretting, murmuring, complaining spirit

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25. hours, but my fretting was of no help to Toby

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26. When I returned to the dining room, Andrew was still fretting about Darren

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27. “He was fretting over it yesterday, so it is about time he told her,”

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28. All that fretting seconds ago was a waste of my time

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29. She then thought about poor Tadeo, fretting and losing his hair, and burst into laughter

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30. • No fretting about whether competitors will complain about your tricky methods

31. He’d already climbed into the rear seat and pulled the door closed, when Sound rapped on the glass, his fretting face peering inside

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32. “I don’t want you fretting over it, Cap’n,” Sound struggled to say

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33. So tell her to stop fretting and get on with it

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34. Priscilla fretting in her chair that he should stay away so long saw very clearly that no cook could help them

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35. As he scrambled about trying to find his bearings, this mysterious and cloaked figure was still fretting about trying to unnerve him

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36. ” Dawit was still fretting about Taran’s remark

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37. In any case, was that not what the majority of marriages achieve? We made love twice during the week she spent in Cairo and I was constantly fretting I might accidentally call her Marian

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38. The struggling and fretting after originality that one sees in modern art is certainly an evidence of vitality, but one is inclined to doubt whether anything really original was ever done in so forced a way

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39. But while speaking against fretting after eccentricity, don't let it be assumed that any discouragement is being given to genuine new points of view

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40. He was fretting over the fire while she laughed

41. sets into motion the actuality of it; so stop fretting, your friend Sanguine knew what she

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42. She loved him? Caleb had been fretting over the bond that had formed between her and Dominic the last few months

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43. Put the welfare of your family first_, and stop fretting about yourself

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44. So he tortured himself, fretting himself with such questions, and finding a kind of enjoyment in it

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45. Maritornes was fretting and sweating at finding herself held so fast by Don Quixote, and not understanding or heeding the words he addressed to her, she strove without speaking to free herself

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46. Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,

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47. "If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz," complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fretting, and ennui

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48. Something seemed to be fretting him

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49. Always when he went with Miriam, and it grew rather late, he knew his mother was fretting and getting angry about him---why, he could not understand

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50. She gathered something was fretting him, that he found things hard

51. Now she began to combat him in his restless fretting

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52. "Here's the seacoast morning, big and permanent and beautiful; there is she, fretting, always unsatisfied, and temporary as a bubble of foam

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53. "She's been fretting here" I continued, "and eating scarcely anything, and never complaining; she would admit none of us till this evening, and so we couldn't inform you of her state as we were not aware of it ourselves; but it is nothing

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54. And then I went on and told her all what I told Uncle Silas before; and then she said she'd forgive us, and maybe it was all right enough anyway, and about what a body might expect of boys, for all boys was a pretty harum- scarum lot as fur as she could see; and so, as long as no harm hadn't come of it, she judged she better put in her time being grateful we was alive and well and she had us still, stead of fretting over what was past and done

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55. As a man who had once sinned, but who kept his conscience all alive and painfully sensitive by the fretting of an unhealed wound, he might have been supposed safer within the line of virtue than if he had never sinned at all

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56. Every half hour or so, their paralegal, Lynn, would enter with even more documents or forms to be filed, and though it was all Maria could do to keep up, staying busy had the benefit of keeping her from fretting about her lunch date

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57. She wondered whether she should stop fretting about speed and worry instead about safety

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58. They were well aware of what Ky Ebright was thinking, what Royal Brougham was fretting about, and what many in the eastern press were saying: Washington would come up short again in the last few hundred feet of the four-mile varsity race

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59. This was exactly the kind of nonsense he didn’t want them fretting about

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60. I never saw the kill, for I was accustomed to the mare's fretting, and I never marked her absence, for my consciousness of her was only of something tawny, and the lion filled that part

61. Fretting, he waited for Kehaar

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62. "No, but the trouble is that anything can happen," said Hazel, fretting

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63. Sometimes, in the furious excitations of desire, I threw myself on the bed, spread my thighs abroad, and lay as it were expecting the longed-for relief, till finding my illusion, I shut and squeezed them together again, burning and fretting

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64. He grimaced at that last thought, then ordered himself to stop fretting about it

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65. ” wanted to jerk her head away and say “Oh, fiddle-dee-dee!” for the warming memory Scarlett was far from fretting and Melanie’s soft hands in her hair were irritating

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66. We hadn’t gone a mile before I stopped fretting about that, because she was in complete control, the Expedition a glove and she the hand within it

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67. Fretting, she dug her chin into her arm

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68. ) And had he really been so different, fretting about the apartment this afternoon, setting out mismatched mugs, as though this weren’t an intervention but a tea party? He still acted as if the proper arrangement of surfaces might call down benediction, or grace

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69. There had been months in the past when he’d felt her fretting about him from afar

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70. Now this was cunning Vengeance indeed! The Lady with whom Bellars had broken my Heart had now been cast out by him! Had Revenge been my whole Intent, I could have ne’er contriv’d such sweet Vengeance! ’Twas only when I idly toy’d with Fate, instead of fretting and anguishing o’er it, that Fate dropp’d all her most glitt’ring Jewels in my Lap

71. Have listened to mother for hours, fretting about future dangers

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72. I fear she is fretting about something

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73. ‘She’s been fretting here,’ I continued, ‘and eating scarcely anything, and never complaining: she would admit none of us till this evening, and so we couldn’t inform you of her state, as we were not aware of it ourselves; but it is nothing

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74. Georgiana, when not unburdening her heart to me, spent most of her time in lying on the sofa, fretting about the dulness of the house, and wishing over and over again that her aunt Gibson would send her an invitation up to town

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75. “I see I have the means of fretting him out of his melancholy for some time to come

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76. Instead of fretting over whether our stop is in the “correct” place or not, just keep in mind the overall objective

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77. "Anna Arkadyevna," the countess said in explanation to her son, "has a little son eight years old, I believe, and she has never been parted from him before, and she keeps fretting over leaving him

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78. Frou-Frou started into a gallop, her left foot forward, made two bounds, and fretting at the tightened reins, passed into a jolting trot, bumping her rider up and down

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79. The question is still fretting your heart, and not answered

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80. At last, feeling very cross and ill-humored, Ivan arrived home, and suddenly, about fifteen paces from the garden gate, he guessed what was fretting and worrying him

81. At the moment when Krassotkin opened the door and came into the room, the captain and all the boys were round Ilusha's bed, looking at a tiny mastiff pup, which had only been born the day before, though the captain had bespoken it a week ago to comfort and amuse Ilusha, who was still fretting over the lost and probably dead Zhutchka

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82. A grave anxiety was fretting Mitya

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83. The doctors shall make me some sort of wart on my face—what's the use of their being so mechanical!—or else I'll put out one eye, let my beard grow a yard, and I shall turn gray, fretting for Russia

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84. And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting

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