Example Sentences

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Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

It would have been exasperating if it wasn’t so hot.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2021

It certainly must have been exasperating for the general of the Continental Congress to be reduced to such expedients as tying a grandiloquent ultimatum to an arrow and shooting it into the beleaguered town.

From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry

It would, indeed, have been exasperating if he had sent his troops on a false scent.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

They kept trotting about in circles, and avoided the warriors with a persistency that must have been exasperating to them.

From The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux by Ellis, Edward Sylvester