fraying

And when his trousers start fraying near the ankles, he snips off the cloth with a scissor.

In reality US society is fraying in hundred different small ways, mostly due to pressures coming from the outside.

Like, fraying your way in a traffic jam to reach the correct lane, which sometimes involve slow but untraditionnal paths.

It looks like the new one is designed slightly differently so that the fraying won't happen.

But go right ahead, compare America to all the dysfunctional, corrupt, fraying societies of the world.

The championships, flawed though they might be, are the fraying threads tenuously holding the game above the abyss of public irrelevance.

I've had 3 adaptors break over the past few years due to fraying near the computer-side plug.

Finally, yesterday I broke down and bought new replacement cables; the cable had started fraying from within.

For what it's worth, I had the fraying problem on my old MacBook Air charter too.

I've used Sugru for one thing, applying a thin layer around the fraying part of my Macbook Air power cable.

Our society is fraying because folks like Mitt Romney think it's OK to not pay taxes for 10 years, and then run for President.

At home, I just recently replaced my fraying HD280 Pros with a pair of HD380 Pros.

The "yellowing and then die" seemed particular to one batch of insulation; regular fraying, sure.

The title says "Obama Says Income Gap Is Fraying U.

Society isn't "fraying," either — it is a time of accelerated change brought on by a number of factors such as globalism, the Internet, and so on.