How to Use fraught in a Sentence

fraught

adjective

• This one does feel more fraught.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 1 May 2026
• Even note-taking can be fraught.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Magrath's own role in the case was fraught.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
• Yet there are deeper forces at work that make the fight here more fraught than most.
  — Jack Brook, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2020
• The pilgrimage has been fraught with risks in the past as well.
  — Shams Irfan, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
• But the days leading up to her death were fraught with tension.
  — CBS News, 6 June 2020
• The premise is simple, if not fraught with danger.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
• Haiti’s success could not come at a more fraught moment.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026
• This, of course, is among the most fraught topics of the moment.
  — Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The meeting was fraught with danger.
  — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
• But the peace prize can serve as a beacon of hope in fraught and fractured times.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• As for me, these days, there are no more fraught car journeys with my parents.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 July 2020
• But times feel fraught, without question.
  — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
• Even if a cheese can be rescued, the act of bringing it back to life can be fraught.
  — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2020
• At a time when clothing can still feel fraught, a little sparkle can take one a long way.
  — Marina Khorosh, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2021
• Your book is coming out at such a fraught moment in our country.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 16 June 2020
• The show came at a fraught cultural moment for the sport.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 21 Feb. 2026
• Going back to your childhood home as an adult is always fraught.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2018
• But asking for a say in the drafting would be fraught, anyway.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
• Trying to study this dynamic would be fraught, to say the least.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2021
• The impressions of that night are fraught with issues of race and class.
  — oregonlive, 27 June 2020
• Glaciers are fraught with hazards that range from slips on ice to falls down sinkholes called a moulins.
  — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
• Glaciers are fraught with hazards that range from slips on ice to falls down sinkholes called a moulins.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
• For the next prime minister, the budget fight will be just as fraught.
  — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
• But that would’ve been a character that was too fraught to begin with.
  — Carolyn Murnick, The Cut, 1 Sep. 2017
• But those are fraught with their own set of issues, such as inflation.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2021
• Raising tiny tree seedlings to a marketable size is a fraught business.
  — Ali Besharat, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
• Those six months to Mars could, for astronauts, be a fraught time.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• The case has also been fraught within the agency.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
• The partnership was fraught with tension from the first day.
  — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026