Example Sentences

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Even if the deliveries have been annoying at times, the residents of Range View said they don’t feel menaced.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Although the wind and sand may have been annoying to some people, it was comforting to Mr. Ait-Khouya.

From New York Times • May 28, 2021

The errors are what made him famous, but it was his natural warmth and effervescent enthusiasm that led the audience to find charming what in almost any other commentator might have been annoying.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2021

That would have been annoying – these things can drag on for a while and suck the momentum out of the game – but we could have lived with it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2018

It must have been annoying the way kids were always banging on it.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead