How to Use annoy in a Sentence

annoy

verb

• Lows range from the mid-20s to near 30, which is sure to annoy all the blooming plants.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• The whole bit with the crystal ball Disa buys annoyed me.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• The opposing coach that seems to annoy me the most is James Franklin.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2020
• At the same time, Epps was annoyed by all the resources that were used to escort him.
  — Camila Dechalus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Clippers won 48 games last season and annoyed the life out of the Warriors in the first round of the playoffs.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2019
• The nights start at about 9 p.m. while the sky is still light and are over by midnight, to not annoy the neighbors.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2020
• Telling your car to change the heat or radio tends to annoy drivers.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• In the end, what annoys me the most is that Apple took so long to adopt for the iPhone the cable used by the rest of the gadget world.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Is there a world in which my cat is not annoying me right now?
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
• Think of it as welcoming in a new year that hasn’t yet had a chance to annoy us.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2022
• The object thrown at the Queens icon clearly annoyed her.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2024
• On one of these cups, Cupid tugs the male centaur’s hair to annoy him.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• While that will lead to less waste, this shift and the price jump may annoy plenty of people.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• The security guards were annoyed, and the fans did not care.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• These throngs from the western part of the city tended to annoy East Berliners.
  — Time, 12 Nov. 2019
• My husband of three years has a few habits that annoy and frustrate me.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
• Here’s my list of the top issues that annoy or frustrate users.
  — Yec, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• There are a number of reasons to be annoyed by such rhetoric.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 5 June 2024
• Funny Captions Found the person who annoys me the least and called it love.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 11 Jan. 2019
• Which explains a lot about why teenagers who twirl their hair or squirm in their seats at the movies annoy the rest of us.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Only VW’s volume knob annoys — mute it and the whole screen goes black.
  — cleveland, 8 Feb. 2020
• But with some new changes YouTube is rolling out to the video streaming platform, the words will do more than just annoy you.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2023
• It’s been here two days and has already made a mess and my neighbor is annoyed by the barking.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• The latter sees those troops flank and circle to annoy you with their bows and arrows.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 June 2020
• People who yell at you to get off your phone and live in the moment are annoying.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
• The second misconception, though, was the one that seemed to annoy Ange Postecoglou, the Spurs coach.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 17 May 2024
• The patron using the machine, a woman in plaid pants and a tight black shirt, had annoyed the witch.
  — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• There are a lot of reasons tech can annoy you while working.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
• Jonathan is annoyed at the Frenchman for not pitching in with the cooking and cleaning — while making sure to eat everything the other guys cook.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• Americans annoyed by the service economy of the Carter and Reagan years yelled at answering services.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024