fretted

How To Use fretted In A Sentence

• He got to wear his lovely yellow silk gown—the one he wore as Juliet he fretted over the tear in the sleeve and blames Becka, naturally. Exit the Actress
• When she fretted about not doing well he would offer advice. Times, Sunday Times
• I fretted as we trundled slowly home in a rather despondent way.
• State-of-the-art production and Gilmour's note-perfect playing collided with bassist Roger Waters's grim lyrical vision, which fretted about materialism and age creeping up on you.
• When she fretted about not doing well he would offer advice. Times, Sunday Times
• Fretted screens diffuse the light, and wooden doors and panels are delicately carved.
• Typically you only play the "fretted" strings, not all six strings, when playing a power chord. Guitar Friday: The Power Chord!
• But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by {81} day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest _chiaroscuro_. A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
• And then this week, the current Kremlin incumbent, Dmitry Medvedev, goes and announces that he's "rearming" Russia, using the very word - "rearmament" - that Europe fretted over and feared all through its short 20-year peace between the first and second world wars. Undefined
• Then when Zoe had croup or the nanny got sick and I was forced to stay at home, I fretted all day to get to work. LOST CHILDREN