annoy
verb (used with object)
to disturb or bother (a person) in a way that displeases, troubles, or slightly irritates.
were annoying
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past progressiveof annoy.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The 34-year-old said these messages were "annoying and upsetting" for women but "also not fair on men" as it made her "less trusting towards all men".
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023
Also, they thought the timed messages were annoying.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 25, 2022
They were annoying, which made them wonderful, but they also lasted just a few minutes before we’d used them all up, leaving little black smears on the sidewalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
My sticker shock came when I decided they were annoying to carry and went to buy the carrying cases, and was somehow upsold on ice packs to slip into said carrying cases …
From Slate ● May 31, 2021
She had only met Grace once, and Joaquin never, and already her siblings were annoying her.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
