Example Sentences

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The persistent and mostly unsuccessful UW runs up the middle were irritating to watch as the game against Utah wore on, particularly when the few runs at the edges met with more success.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2020

“I wrote in The Standard once a week about things that were irritating me, and, blow me down, last Christmas on Instagram there they were as a tea towel,” Mr. Haslam said.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020

It was thought that they were irritating, that they contained too much personality, that they couldn’t convey objectivity.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2019

And some odd bits of editing were irritating.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2019

To Milton, whose table manners were both easy and correct, the primitive methods of his father were irritating.

From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague