fretful

How To Use fretful In A Sentence

• They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
• The lady watched fretfully as the men came closer to hitting Mack with their bullets and ran much faster than before as their rage intensified.
• Personal relations have become restless, fretful, often disturbed by an itch for change and variety.
• Who can untangle this fretful cat 's cradle? Times, Sunday Times
• Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month.
• Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky.
• A good man may be in want, but then he quiets himself, and strives to make himself easy; but these people when they shall be hungry shall fret themselves, and when they have nothing to feed on their vexation shall prey upon their own spirits; for fretfulness is a sin that is its own punishment. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
• a night of shallow fretful sleep
• When we return, will a tale unfold whose lightest word will harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make they two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Seven soliloquies