IRRITATE in a Sentence
Learn IRRITATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
233 example sentences for IRRITATE, such as:
1. His remarks irritated me a little.
2. The shrug and the smile did not irritate Levin.
3. The noise was beginning to irritate me intensely.
4. His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
5. Traffic noise is a source of constant irritation.
2. The shrug and the smile did not irritate Levin.
3. The noise was beginning to irritate me intensely.
4. His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
5. Traffic noise is a source of constant irritation.
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Meanings and Examples of IRRITATE
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irritate
v. excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
v. excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "It was a small estate that brought in no profit," replied Prince Andrew, trying to extenuate his action so as not to irritate the old man uselessly.
2 She knew that her going in during the night at an unusual hour would irritate him.
3 This legitimate peculiarity of each individual which used to excite and irritate Pierre now became a basis of the sympathy he felt for, and the interest he took in, other people.
4 You should be careful not to irritate her, James.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
5 The shrug and the smile did not irritate Levin.
6 Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.
7 Today, however, her chirping enthusiasms did not irritate Lily.
8 He went on with tender feeling: "It is a thing I am not at all too proud to do, and only a fear that I might irritate her has kept me away so long."
9 I sat staring at the clock for some time and, when its ticking began to irritate me, I left the room.
10 My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions.
11 "I arrived at five o'clock as you told me yesterday," I answered aloud, with an irritability that threatened an explosion.
12 This irritability is, as you know, chiefly directed to political questions.
13 To her consternation she detected in herself in relation to little Nicholas some symptoms of her father's irritability.
14 But what distressed the princess most of all was her father's irritability, which was always directed against her and had of late amounted to cruelty.
15 Her melancholy, however, began to turn to irritability, and not long before Boris' departure she formed a definite plan of action.
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me.
2 Her effusive manner of greeting her friends finally began to irritate them.
3 The noise was beginning to irritate me intensely.
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.