Synonym: battle, brush, clash, conflict, fight, melee, quarrel, rub, scuffle, skirmish, struggle, tatter, tussle, wear away. Similar words: gray, tray, array, spray, portray, frame, frank, fraud. Meaning: [freɪ] n. a noisy fight. v. 1. wear away by rubbing 2. cause friction.
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(61) But the outcome is neither random, nor completely orderly: probability has entered into the fray.
(62) Kazanow grins sheepishly at the cheers before rejoining the fray below, the easy warmth between band and benefactor plainly apparent.
(63) Clinton returned to the electoral fray last week to get out the black and Hispanic vote in California and the south.
(64) It was only three o'clock and tempers were already beginning to fray.
(65) She said she always made a point to stay above the fray and concentrate on her work.
(66) Your first impulse was to step into the fray, select a likely teacher, and present yourself for instruction.
(67) Then King jumped into the fray and tried to persuade Republicans to replace Gingrich with Rep.
(68) Finally, Yusuf led into the fray his own Black Guards, consisting of 4000 men.
(69) At that moment Nusbaum was hurrying back from another meeting to join the fray if he could.
(70) Refreshments would be served in the salon, while the combatants donned their battle gear for the fray in the changing room.
(71) The exception appeared to be the fray in Lusaka.
(72) My fingers itch for a fray.
(73) Rebel groups from Darfur might even join the fray.
(74) In more recent years, telephony has entered this fray, and the desire to make Web programs accessible over normal phone lines has come into vogue.
(75) GM's strategy of offering a multiplicity of brands started to fray.
(76) The latest announcement suggests that security has entered the fray as a new differentiator.
(77) The horns howl into the fray, trying in their own turn to convey one of the cadenza's motives.
(78) The first blow makes the anger, but the second makes the fray.
(79) Benjamin Robins then entered the fray with articles and a book.
(80) I always listen first. And then, inevitably, I join the fray.
(81) The entry of SkyRiver into the fray disrupts that dynamic, countering a massive global organization with a new element of competition.
(82) The theory is that post-holiday blues combined with the end of the summer and no more bank holidays until Christmas conspire together to make August 30 the day tempers will fray .
(83) He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray.
(84) Any tyro collector entering the fray at Frieze should first read The $12m Stuffed Shark by economist Don Thompson.
(85) The two gangsters seemed to be eager for the fray.
(86) The relationship between the two companies began to fray after Mr. Hurd resigned from H.P. last month.
(87) AI - Neither friends nor enemies charge blindly into the fray.
(88) Labrum injury including fray, tear and shift, has already been one of the most important factors that cause joint pain,[sentencedict.com] instability and degeneration.
(89) At one point Conservative MP and Exmoor Society vice-president Ian Liddell-Grainger waded into the fray, demanding action to find the culprits and declaring himself 'bloody furious'.
(90) She encouraged the hospitable impulse and promised in advance to hurl herself into the fray.