He had a nasty chafe on his knee. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
No chafe is falling from our plane. From Wordnik.com. [THE LAST FLIGHT] Reference
The chafe is not blotting out the radar rays. From Wordnik.com. [THE LAST FLIGHT] Reference
Was Bertram already beginning to "chafe" under these new bonds that held him?. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Billy -- Married] Reference
"chafe," as Drake says of him, "like a bear robbed of her whelps.". From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference
Hold on tightly, because I hate it when you chafe my skin. From Wordnik.com. [Sticky Wants to Grab] Reference
Ranchers chafe at laws that forbid them to kill the jaguars. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of The Big Cats] Reference
Like Wikipedia, but chafe at what you see as its liberal bias?. From Wordnik.com. [BeliefWatch: GodTube] Reference
They chafe under restraints as unavoidable as illness or death. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Unions and industrialists chafe at job losses and falling profits. From Wordnik.com. [Sharing Turkey's Pain] Reference
By grade school, they chafe at restrictions and demand more freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Political Child Abuse] Reference
Moderate Muslims chafe at being put into the same box with extremists. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Who's Inside the Muslim Box?] Reference
David murmured soothing words and continued to chafe the Phoenix's foot. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
They will, I fear, chafe her own nature more than she can improve theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Iraqis, like any people, chafe at occupation and many want a U.S. pullout. From Wordnik.com. [At Last] Reference
He didn't like to hear ABC chairman Robert Iger chafe at Ovitz's meddling. From Wordnik.com. [Power Failure] Reference
Already, some of the fighting men were beginning to chafe with impatience. From Wordnik.com. [War Path] Reference
A great many men, when they smell battle afar off, chafe to get into the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He has not the chance, nor the power, to chafe our soul, and ruffle our temper. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
The smallest annoyances chafe them as though they were unbearable aggravations. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Fat infants should be powdered in all the skin folds; otherwise they are sure to chafe. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Moderate Muslims chafe at being put into the same box with jihadis and other extremists. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Who's Inside the Muslim Box?] Reference
Would freewheeling types at Pixar chafe under the obsessive-compulsive thumb of Mickey Mouse?. From Wordnik.com. [An Incredible Marriage?] Reference
It bloats with water if I don't watch my salt intake and it sheds its hair where socks chafe. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of My Body] Reference
She would chafe at the confinement so fiercely that a renewal of the fever would be inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The weight of obligation began to chafe him, lightly at first, but with ever-increasing discomfort. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Consumers chafe at staggering costs and insatiable demands for public support -- no questions asked. From Wordnik.com. [Waking The Sleeping Giant] Reference
Rosen says he isn't worried that his workers will eventually chafe at his plan's myriad restrictions. From Wordnik.com. [Health-Care Cost Woes? Call Harris Rosen.] Reference
We chafe, and foam, and champ the bit that curbs in our passions, and reins us around the wisest way. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
And this must needs chafe the nerves of those whose eyes are always turned toward the sanguine future. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Quietly — they refuse to use their names — some critics chafe that the "new" Browner isn't so new. From Wordnik.com. [The Lioness In Spring] Reference
She who had been so content to be merely alive, began now to chafe at the narrow limits of her existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
She might hate and chafe in secret to her heart's content; external conformity was the one thing needful. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
If they are apathetic and unreasonable, if they chafe at details or expect too much, it will be held back. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference
Well, they meant to nettle themselves, and so chafe their skins so as to enable them to bear the cold better. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Privacy activists still chafe at the idea that the FBI and the NSA claim a voice in setting communications policy. From Wordnik.com. [Trying To Find The Key] Reference
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