IRRITATING in a Sentence

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233 example sentences for IRRITATING, such as:

1. He flickered his irritating grin.
2. His remarks irritated me a little.
3. And also it was a little irritating.
4. Traffic noise is a source of constant irritation.
5. His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.

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 Meanings and Examples of IRRITATING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
irritating
 a.  exasperating; annoying; causing irritation; vexing; provoking
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Scarlett was far from fretting and Melanie's soft hands in her hair were irritating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Everyone knew there had never been a cowardly Confederate soldier and they found this statement peculiarly irritating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Hardly an hour before she had had an irritating talk with Grandpa.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
5  The look of exultation and brutal triumph which announced this terrible truth was irresistibly irritating.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  There was, on the contrary, an irritating prolongation.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  There was a most irritating end to every one of these debates.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
8  He succeeded so well in persuading his brother, and in lending him money for the journey without irritating him, that he was satisfied with himself in that matter.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
9  After the irritating discussion with his brother, he pondered over this intention again.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
10  When he spoke to her in Russian, using the Russian "thou" of intimacy and affection, it was insufferably irritating to Anna.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
11  And also it was a little irritating.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  He flickered his irritating grin.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  Nancy, apparently fearful of irritating the housebreaker, sat with her eyes fixed upon the fire, as if she had been deaf to all that passed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  I don't know anything more irritating than shoes that squelch, and go ghi, ghi, ghi, the whole time.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
15  It caused the goodman unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn within, and only to be able to be hard outside.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  All that might sound as if it could be slightly irritating, but it isn't at all because it's written with tremendous verve and vigor - really short, fast, vivid, colorful sentences.
2  What I feel irritating is that after three readings of the book, she still gets it wrong.
3  You need someone to help you cut through all the irritating legal jargon.
4  Patients usually suffer from increased irritability.
5  Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such VERY short remarks.
6  Helen liked to be served by people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively obsequious waiter or a fawning salesclerk.
7  Like a gadfly, he irritated all the guests at the hotel; within forty-eight hours, everyone regarded him as an annoying busybody.
8  His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
9  His remarks irritated me a little.
10  How could it be otherwise, when Helen, at all times and under all circumstances, evinced for me a quiet and faithful friendship, which ill-humour never soured, nor irritation never troubled?
11  The mob showed its irritation by hanging the judge in effigy.
12  Nanami finds herself evenly divided between irritation and infatuation when she meets Yano, a cute classmate.
13  The heavy traffic is a constant source of irritation.
14  He tried not to let his irritation show as he blinked in the glare of the television lights.
15  Traffic noise is a source of constant irritation.