fretful
Example Sentences
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Oliver is used to hospitals, but is fretful, and wriggles as the research nurse slowly injects the treatment, about a cup full, into a catheter in his chest.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025
In a twitch, a head tilt or a whine, Indy communicates his emotions: curious, lonely, contented, confused, fretful, desperate or petrified.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
As Queenie, navigating empty relationships and professional disappointments on a journey from self-sabotage to self-worth, Brown makes a whole person from a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024
Communication failures ensue, as do the progressively more fretful faces and soundtrack music.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024
He saw the prostrate Livingood surrounded by a crowd that included a dumbfounded and fretful Ernest Lawrence.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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