How To Use Fretfulness In A Sentence

  • The place exuded a spirit of camaraderie even while players sang and danced in ecstasy in an apparent bid to make up for the anxiety and fretfulness they experienced in the past four days on the tracks.
  • Not the great sorrows of life, or its great sacrifices, but fretfulness, ignoble worries, sordid cares, are that which draw lines upon a woman's face and harshen her features. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
  • Showing students how to cope with test anxiety might also help them to handle their built-up angst and fretfulness about other issues.
  • It might be that her fretfulness was the effect of an uneasiness of mind, which was more hopeful than her previous fierce self-satisfaction, and that her aberrations were the last efforts of old evil habits to re-establish their grasp by custom, when her heart was becoming detached from them. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
  • Ignoring the fretfulness in his voice, Isabella glared at him out of the corner of her eye and then turned away to dry the remainder of her tears.
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  • Of course, you're entitled to a bit of fretfulness.
  • His signature style, both as a standup and as his TV alter ego Dave Mohumbhai, may be spaced-out slacker cool? but, in conversation, a fretfulness lurks, barely concealed beneath the easy-going San Francisco drawl. Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord
  • It will soothe your baby's stomach, help to relieve wind and reduce fretfulness, helping your baby to have a good night's sleep.
  • Beijing's fretfulness about change has caused another good idea to struggle to get off the ground. Board Stiffed
  • 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)
  • Mild side effects such as pain and tenderness where the shot was given, fever, fretfulness and drowsiness occurred in as many as one-half to one-third of children who received the vaccine. DTaP: Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis Vaccine
  • Tittmann thinks not so much "wrath" is meant, as an indignant feeling of fretfulness under the calamities to which the whole of human life is exposed; this accords with the "divers temptations" in Jas 1: 2. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • It is the morose look, the harsh expression, the tone of irritation and fretfulness which is so unpopular in school. The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young
  • It cannot, however, be denied -- particularly in respect to nervous children -- that teething appears occasionally to induce unpleasant disturbances, such as fretfulness, broken sleep, digestive disorders, and occasionally fever; as a rule such symptoms persist only for a few days, if the infant be properly looked after. Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
  • I assume your fretfulness about the actual shades of blue is a stab at humor. Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
  • A mood of fretfulness thus pervades the pamphlet.
  • Parental heartbreak often hides or disguises itself in worries and fretfulness. The Blessing of a B Minus
  • Otherwise, I've got to figure out meaning for myself and all, and that can cause a bit of fretfulness along the way. Archive 2009-01-01

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