Example Sentences

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Cut to several years later: Barnes is president, sniping and scheming in Washington, while Keating is irascibly adjusting to civilian life in rural New Hampshire.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2021

The scenes irascibly mocking the acting students have long passed from sour to vinegary.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2019

Affecting him the most, though, is Polly, whom we sporadically cut back to as she irascibly adjusts to Rex’s “exit plan.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2016

Robert Croft, irascibly, and Dean Cosker, modishly, still churn out the spin in mid‑afternoon, and have 39 seasons between them.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2011

Doc Daneeka demanded, lifting his delicate immaculate dark head up from his chest to gaze at Yossarian irascibly for a moment with lachrymose eyes.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller