Meanings of frayed end in inglés

Even the best plans can come unraveled if a frayed end is left untended.

Fate has measured out my thread to a frayed end.

I find only the frayed end of a seat belt and a broken buckle.

I guess I reached the last of my rope and slid right off the frayed end.

He held up one frayed end of a manila rope, that was wound around the tree-trunk.

He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.

Coil after coil ran easily away, and at last the frayed end passed into the darkness above Christian's head.

Piquant morsels of the spider are entangled in the frayed end of the line as its original potency becomes non-effective.

Then he carefully scrutinized the broken and frayed end where it had snapped off when the burglar had dragged it down.

Martin looked up into its "face," like the frayed end of a rope with eyes and a bouquet of claws.

The frayed end of a cigarette butt spills out, joining the other cigarette butts already dissolving against the porcelain like dark, tiny worms.

Then he watched as ten feet of line played out and the frayed end of the line disappeared into the blackness of the water.

A rope that has been trimmed to remove a frayed end will have one side longer than the other, making the middle mark misleading.

With the frayed end of the whip from the delivery wagon she lightly scored the exposed ribs of Dexter, tormenting him with devilish cunning.

Then the same animal takes another tool, a slender stem with a frayed end, and inserts it into the hole to fish out the insects.

The deeper the splits, the more frayed ends, the better.