FRETFUL in a Sentence
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92 example sentences for FRETFUL, such as:
1. Doubts began to fret his mind.
2. Mary became quite still and Colin looked fretful.
3. The child asked for another cake in a fretful voice.
4. A month went by, and old Mrs. Shimerda began to get fretful.
5. Or a person continue to lonely down, don't need anyone Li frets.
2. Mary became quite still and Colin looked fretful.
3. The child asked for another cake in a fretful voice.
4. A month went by, and old Mrs. Shimerda began to get fretful.
5. Or a person continue to lonely down, don't need anyone Li frets.
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Meanings and Examples of FRETFUL
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fretful
a. nervous and unable to relax
a. habitually complaining
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1 So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.
2 Mary sat in her corner of the railway carriage and looked plain and fretful.
3 It was another cry, but not quite like the one she had heard last night; it was only a short one, a fretful childish whine muffled by passing through walls.
4 The door of her room was ajar and the sound came down the corridor, a far-off faint sound of fretful crying.
5 Colin looked fretful and kept his strange black-lashed eyes fixed on Dr. Craven's face.
6 Mary became quite still and Colin looked fretful.
7 She laughed as if she could not help it when they told her of the increasing difficulty there was in pretending that Colin was still a fretful invalid.
8 She continued to stare at him, the flame of the unshaded lamp bringing out with microscopic cruelty the fretful lines of her face.
9 "Pork and Mammy did something with the silver--put it in the well-- but I'm not remembering now," Gerald's voice was fretful.
10 "I don't know what you DO mean," said Mrs. Peniston, with a frightened quiver in her small fretful voice.
11 A month went by, and old Mrs. Shimerda began to get fretful.
12 I doubt not that our conduct had much to do with making him appear awkward, and of consequence fretful.
13 She had never spoken a word to her sister-in-law for three days; but she had likewise dropped her fretful complaining, and we found it a great comfort.
14 He had been greatly tried, during the journey, I felt convinced, by his fretful ailing charge.
15 Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, "I have looked over it."
Example Sentence:
1 The child asked for another cake in a fretful voice.
2 Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
3 I was working all hours and constantly fretting about everyone else's problems.
4 Doubts began to fret his mind.
5 Don't fret - I'm sure he's OK.
6 Further reason not to fret is that Obama volunteers have been doing grass roots organizing in Texas for quite some time.
7 Such grandiose forecasts kindle anxiety as well as hope; many fret that AI (artificial intelligence) could destroy jobs faster than it creates them.
8 Or a person continue to lonely down, don't need anyone Li frets.