fraying造句

To wrap or bind(a rope, for example)with twine to prevent unraveling or fraying.

A ring or collar of rope used to hoist spars or prevent fraying.

Or perhaps conditions and fraying nerves will lead to a very violent, very bad denouement.

Each time a cell replicates itself (as it does before it dies), the telomeres shorten, like plastic tips fraying on the end of shoelaces.

This scarring is a reflection of missing genetic information due to the fraying of DNA in nuclear fallouts within human history.

In Japan opposition candidate Toshihito Kumagai has just been voted overwhelmingly mayor of Chiba once a LDP citadel, portending the end of the LDP's fraying hegemony.

Stephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed AT the fraying edge of his shiny black coAT-sleeve.

It is a small bus and seats have been allocated to some passengers who are ill. I spend the journey on the floor of the bus, my temper fraying.

Blackburn and Szostak determined that it was a specific DNA sequence in the telomeres that kept chromosomes from fraying whenever they were copied when a cell splits in two.

When these were injected into yeast, the DNA sequence protected the chromosomes when they were copied, just as the plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces stop them from fraying.