Example Sentences

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“With coronavirus, we have an opportunity to examine issues that have been vexing us in this country for a very, very long time,” said Lindiwe Zulu, South Africa’s social development minister.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2020

So the question—which would have been vexing for any president—is: What to do with this guy?

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2011

But no, no," added she hurriedly, "do not, I will not touch it, till——" "Till when?" asked Gerald; "I wish you would tell me how they have been vexing you.

From The Two Guardians or, Home in This World by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The language must have been vexing, for as they sped along far above the passionless sea one jostled the other.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Surely no one here can have been vexing you?

From Vestigia Vol. I. by Fleming, George