Example Sentences

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There’s no point in enumerating all the reasons I dislike it — OK, the unfunny Los Angeles stereotypes were exasperating.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022

As talented as they were enigmatic, as charming as they were exasperating, the Lopez brothers left Stanford after two seasons for the riches of the N.B.A.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2015

The Manhattan cocktail may have been invented in Queens, but those temporary Manhattan-bound signs on Queens Boulevard that proclaimed “To City” were exasperating.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2015

Despite some slips, Columbia scores a hat trick in space The problems were exasperating, almost tinged with gallows humor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her words, her manner, were exasperating, and they were intended to be exasperating.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various