FRUSTRATING in a Sentence

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39 example sentences for FRUSTRATING, such as:

1. If there were frustration, a red one.
2. Again the silence of pure frustration.
3. My job can be very frustrating sometimes.
4. His apathy just made her even more frustrated.
5. The current situation is very frustrating for us.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRUSTRATING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frustrating
 a.  preventing realization or attainment of a desire
Classic Sentence:
1  Clifford fascinated her because he always, or so often, frustrated her will, as if by a finer instinct.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  If you do, then all my earnest efforts to avoid a scandal will be frustrated.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
3  The execution of a plot may be frustrated by some groundless alarm or unforeseen mischance occurring at the very moment when the scheme is to be carried out.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
4  Because he, having a lofty spirit and far-reaching aims, could not have regulated his conduct otherwise, and only the shortness of the life of Alexander and his own sickness frustrated his designs.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
5  Alas, it shows how little notion you can have of all it has cost me to effect a purpose so unexpectedly frustrated, that you talk of beginning over again.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
6  He had proceeded with wisdom and from the most righteous motives under heaven's blue only to be frustrated by hateful circumstances.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  The idea is one that no circumstances can frustrate.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
8  The men curled into depressions and fitted themselves snugly behind whatever would frustrate a bullet.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  If there were frustration, a red one.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  Again the silence of pure frustration.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  The current situation is very frustrating for us.
2  He doesn't listen to what I say and it's so frustrating.
3  My job can be very frustrating sometimes.
4  Its coherence is evident; it is too lovely and lucid to be frustrating or dull.
5  Some dangers are real and obvious; others are slow, insidious, frustrating hope, and causing keen disappointment.
6  Lawmakers on both sides of the partisan aisle are growing increasingly impatient with website snafus that they say are frustrating the public and adding to taxpayer costs.
7  An article based on the interview can be found here, which focuses on Mr Lewman's belief that cyberspies in the US and UK are leaking his team information, frustrating their colleagues' efforts to compromise Tor's special browser software.
8  The police frustrated the bandit's attempt to rob the bank.
9  He gets frustrated when people don't understand what he's trying to say.
10  This failure leaves the child depressed and frustrated.
11  His apathy just made her even more frustrated.
12  Ever so a person, can in order to my every move and happy or frustrated for a long time.
13  He had hoped to set a new world record, but was frustrated by bad weather.
14  Trying to pin down exactly when the contractors would be finished remodeling the house, Nancy was frustrated by their elusive replies.
15  A divided Liberal party after the war meant a frustrated and enfeebled nonconformity.