IRRITATION in a Sentence

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For IRRITATION, below is one of 233 sentences:
Like a gadfly, he irritated all the guests at the hotel; within forty-eight hours, everyone regarded him as an annoying busybody.

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 Meanings and Examples of IRRITATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
irritation
 n.  a sudden outburst of anger
 n.  the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Catching sight of Mammy's burden, Scarlett's expression changed from one of minor irritation to obstinate belligerency.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  She had been thinking of marriage and of Ashley, and she looked at Charles with poorly concealed irritation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  But the memory was blurred, blurred by the sudden feeling of irritation that memory of him always brought to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  She sighed with relief and irritation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  The old irritation and antagonism which he roused in her was hot in her heart and she yearned to speak tart words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  It wasn't her money and she didn't want her evening's pleasure spoiled by irritation at other people's foolishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  She looked up into his blank, smooth face and suddenly her irritation fell away, even as her embarrassment had disappeared after the conversation about her pregnancy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  After Wade had picked up several books and let them drop with bangs and sighed deeply, Scarlett turned to him in irritation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  The matter-of-course tone of Mrs. Trenor's greeting deepened her irritation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
10  The consciousness increased her irritation against Rosedale, but also her feeling that now, if ever, was the moment to propitiate him, hateful as it was to do so in Selden's presence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  She felt nothing at all except irritation at their slow progress toward the door.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  His wise surgeon's-hands stroked her shoulder, and her irritation at his clumsiness was lost in his strength.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Mrs. Gougerling reported fully, and with some irritation, her husband's inappreciation of liver and bacon.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  As the rhythmic oars plopped and creaked, as she floated on an unreality of delicate gray over which the sunset was poured out thin, the irritation of Cy and Maud slipped away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  The irritation in his voice smoothed out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  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?
2  The mob showed its irritation by hanging the judge in effigy.
3  Nanami finds herself evenly divided between irritation and infatuation when she meets Yano, a cute classmate.
4  The heavy traffic is a constant source of irritation.
5  He tried not to let his irritation show as he blinked in the glare of the television lights.
6  Traffic noise is a source of constant irritation.
7  Patients usually suffer from increased irritability.
8  Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such VERY short remarks.
9  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.
10  Like a gadfly, he irritated all the guests at the hotel; within forty-eight hours, everyone regarded him as an annoying busybody.
11  His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
12  His remarks irritated me a little.
13  Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me.
14  Her effusive manner of greeting her friends finally began to irritate them.
15  The noise was beginning to irritate me intensely.