IRRITATE in a Sentence

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Her melancholy, however, began to turn to irritability, and not long before Boris' departure she formed a definite plan of action.

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 Meanings and Examples of IRRITATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
irritate
 v.  rouse to impatience or anger; annoy; provoke
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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
2  She knew that her going in during the night at an unusual hour would irritate him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
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.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIII
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
5  The shrug and the smile did not irritate Levin.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 15
6  Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Today, however, her chirping enthusiasms did not irritate Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
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."
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
9  I sat staring at the clock for some time and, when its ticking began to irritate me, I left the room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In ARABY
10  My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
11  "I arrived at five o'clock as you told me yesterday," I answered aloud, with an irritability that threatened an explosion.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
12  This irritability is, as you know, chiefly directed to political questions.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
13  To her consternation she detected in herself in relation to little Nicholas some symptoms of her father's irritability.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II
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.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II
15  Her melancholy, however, began to turn to irritability, and not long before Boris' departure she formed a definite plan of action.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V
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.