fretted

Once or twice, I fretted Raiff might be steering his ship to some cliched dark outcome, but I needn’t have worried.

"They're travelling in inhuman conditions," fretted the mayor of Mbandaka, who had come to the riverbank to check the boat was not overloaded and the passengers would be provided with life jackets.

He fretted whenever he thought its editors were cooling toward his fiction or poetry, though there was no way the magazine’s demand could keep pace with Updike’s constant supply.

Girmay fretted that the worlds course, with its nearly 18,000 feet of climbing, was too much—that African riders, especially ones unused to Kigali’s mile-high altitude, would have trouble finishing.

Corporate executives for years have fretted about the time, costs and headaches associated with quarterly financial reports.