EXASPERATE in a Sentence

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1. This sigh seemed to exasperate Nikolay still more.
2. Johnny brothers often exasperate their mother with pranks.
3. He's becoming increasingly exasperated with the situation.
4. He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her.
5. The organization has expressed its exasperation with the government.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXASPERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exasperate
 v.  make someone very annoyed, usually when in difficult situations
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  You may think my departure strange and foolish," said the young man; "you do not know how a paragraph in a newspaper may exasperate one.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 85. The Journey.
2  This sigh seemed to exasperate Nikolay still more.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
3  Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
4  The cavalier laughed aloud, which appeared to exasperate Milady still more.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN
5  His lofty helmet, triple-tressed with horse-hair, holds high a Chimaera breathing from her throat Aetnean fires, raging the more and exasperate with baleful flames, as the battle and bloodshed grow fiercer.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
6  During my absence I should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their enemy and unprotected from his attacks, exasperated as he might be by my departure.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept open for long distance from Detroit.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  At that point, my convict became so frantically exasperated, that he would have rushed upon him but for the interposition of the soldiers.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
9  Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
10  My aunt was so exasperated by the coolness with which Miss Murdstone looked about her, that I really believe she was motionless, and unable for the moment to dart out according to custom.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
11  I was a young boy, and she exasperated me, and I threw a hammer at her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
12  If he had retorted or openly exasperated me, it would have been a relief and a justification; but he had put me on a slow fire, on which I lay tormented half the night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
13  He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
14  But as though of set design, each time she was softened she began to speak again of what exasperated her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
15  The stupid sale of the forest, the fraud practiced upon Oblonsky and concluded in his house, exasperated him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  Johnny brothers often exasperate their mother with pranks.
2  He's becoming increasingly exasperated with the situation.
3  The children bicker morning, noon, and night, exasperating their parents.
4  The organization has expressed its exasperation with the government.