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• Though they did not know the reason for the dispute, they did not hesitate to leap into the fray.
• Who began this bloody fray?
• Wigan, unbeaten in five games at the DW Stadium, looked well in control but the catalyst for Arsenal's improvement finally came when Diaby left the field with a calf injury and Jack Wilshere came into the fray, bringing some much needed determination and urgency to lacklustre Arsenal.
• The ribbon frayed at the cut end.
• The stressful day ended in frayed nerves. (Metaphorical use; nerves are visualised as strings)
• "Besides, all the wit and Philosophy in the world can never demonstrate, that the killing and slaughtering of a Beast is anymore then the striking of a Bush where a Bird's Nest is, where you fray away the Bird, and then seize upon the empty Nest."
• What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed?
• The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.
• We can show the marks he made / When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed.
• The halter was loose on her, and frayed at the edges. Perhaps she’d recently lost weight, or maybe she’d deliberately bought it overlarge. Whatever the reason, it showed quite a bit of her chest.
• The stressful day ended in frayed nerves.