How to Use aggravation in a Sentence

aggravation

noun

• I don't need all this aggravation.
• I don't need all these aggravations.
• This car has caused me nothing but aggravation.
• Many talented people now feel that a career in politics isn't worth all the aggravation.
• One of these is aggravation of the nerves of the inner foot and ankle.
  — Jordan Duncan, Outside Online, 12 May 2021
• Make sure the aloe comes direct from the plant, or is fragrance-free, to avoid aggravation to the skin.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 6 July 2020
• The man is in a constant state of aggravation, and that's why many of his actions seem to make no sense.
  — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
• Take your time and do things right the first time, and save yourself aggravation.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
• How in the world, amid all this struggle and aggravation, will Bears players find a way to stay locked in?
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• It's not known if this injury is a re-aggravation of the old one or a new injury.
  — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 27 Nov. 2020
• This kind of aggravation stays with him all night and maybe even into the next day if the traffic is bad again.
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 8 Sep. 2011
• But the aggravation and fear are far from the only problem.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2022
• Yet this teensy dot of ink can sure cause a lot of aggravation.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• As a source of aggravation, the NBA’s salary cap never fails to provide.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2022
• But this adds a whole extra element of aggravation, the, the, the, all of the nonsense that these cheap airlines do.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• With that in mind, here is some advice to limit the aggravation.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 16 Jan. 2020
• And, to put it lightly, the aggravation in the Kremlin increased.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
• The aggravation of a bad commute could be hurting your health big time.
  — David Carrig, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
• Where the Mets have endured the most aggravation, perhaps, is in the effects of their injuries.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 3 May 2017
• The past two games have been an exercise in aggravation for the Wild with the man advantage.
  — Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• And the aggravation Bears fans have felt from the team’s letdowns has been mirrored inside the locker room.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• It’s so easy to do and saves a lot of aggravation when trying to remove your license.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2021
• The aggravation comes when cows fight back against the prompt to walk, Kahler said, sometimes head-butting, pulling away from, or stepping on the feet of their handler.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• Takk McKinley is also day-to-day with an aggravation of the groin injury that kept him out of the Steelers game.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2021
• And so, the following is a dozen random tips and hacks to save you time, money, and aggravation.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 5 June 2021
• Still, the changes have not been without some aggravation.
  — Matthew Barakat, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• Two people end up in pain—one with aches, the second with aggravation.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
• Our trip was born from the sort of desperate aggravation only the parents of a 14-year-old boy can feel.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Through no fault of your own, this might have cost you money, time and aggravation — and put you at risk of identity theft.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• Washington’s error was not to enlarge the alliance but to do so in a way that maximized Moscow’s aggravation.
  — M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024