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fraught - use in sentences
Preposition: with
- peril: From jealous rivals, to witch hunters or insane elders; the night is fraught with peril even for the undead.
- danger: Working down the mines was fraught with danger for everyone.
- pitfall: Negotiating a deal is fraught with pitfalls at every stage.
- difficulty: The task was fraught with difficulties on all sides.
- contradiction: The field of imperial education was more fraught with contradictions than most for the lady imperialists.
- complication: Bidding by telephone can be fraught with legal complications.
Modifies a noun
- relationship: Written by: Nigel Smith, Phil Hammond Synopsis: Sitcom focusing on the fraught relationship between two orthopedic surgeons.
- battle: Does she regret the sale of the business during a fraught takeover battle?
- situation: Substantial sections of the " left " compound this fraught situation by supporting this race for a party to come to power.
- trip: Following our long and often fraught trip, this happy relaxed atmosphere was a real contrast.
- relation: Referring to his once fraught relation with the Hollywood establishment, he ventured: " We're not against each other.
Modifying Another Word
- emotionally: The Academy Awards ceremony - an emotionally fraught, " and the winner is.. .
- politically: The process of defining rights through international conventions and laws has been long and politically fraught.
- somewhat: The beginning of the workshop was somewhat fraught - two speakers were stuck in a tunnel on the tube from Watford!
- potentially: Both situations are potentially fraught with the danger of contact not being made, breaking down or being inappropriate, even negative.
- increasingly: Over the following years, the situation in the south grew increasingly fraught.
- rather: At the end of a half in which Leeds had only been stretched for period of 2 minutes, things got rather fraught.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: Why my - and our - quest seems so fraught is not clear.
- remain: Aspects of care for vulnerable adults remain fraught with legal uncertainty.
- become: From that moment the love affair becomes almost impossibly fraught.
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