How to Use exasperate in a Sentence

exasperate

verb

• The criticism of his latest movie is sure to exasperate his admirers.
• We were exasperated by the delays.
• There were times that I was exasperated and ready to get out.
  — Barry Petersen, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
• Late in the story, Raylan makes a choice that exasperates one of his new friends.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• The series can tend toward the twee, and the characters can exasperate.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• Rankin appeared exasperated through much of the hearing, and at one point cried.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2019
• His offense in the second half, in front of Toronto’s bench, left the Raptors and their fans exasperated.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
• On the Z Flip, this is all exasperated by the nearly-useless front display.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
• What exasperated Tuesday was the Wings coming out of the first period with two goals from their fourth line.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2019
• Trouble with the press and on the glass Butler's struggles from the field were exasperated by its inability to hold onto the ball.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
• Having Mr Trump sit and listen as other leaders drone on would seem the perfect way to exasperate him.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• As for having to go through the open courtyard and over the pond’s stepping stones to get from his bedroom to the living room, Johnson seemed exasperated that the Times reporter would even ask.
  — Ronald S. Lauder Sold His Tiny Philip Johnson Home, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
• That exasperated the activists, who wondered, why not work with both?
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
• That isn’t to say he doesn’t get exasperated or angry, but Olyphant keeps him centered, grounded.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• Discussion on the floor was tense at times and exasperated at others.
  — Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2020
• There is no high drama here, which may either exasperate readers or endear him to them.
  — Jennifer A. Frey, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• But Homendy was visibly exasperated by the loss of the black box recording.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• But one thing that's sure to take your trip to the mani-pedi chair from relaxing to exasperating is an obnoxious fellow client.
  — Sam Escobar, Good Housekeeping, 17 Oct. 2017
• Third periods have not been kind to the San Jose Sharks all season, an unfortunate trend that’s only been exasperated in the last few weeks and on this road trip.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
• And, sure, last-gasp levellers can certainly be exasperating, but surely not more than a loss, and surely not at Chelsea.
  — SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• The 4-year-old rooster’s dawn crowing exasperated its neighbors, a retired couple who moved to the small island of Oleron off of France’s Atlantic coast.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2019
• Seek a Circle In many cases, the struggle to silence a busy brain can be exasperated by a lack of like-minded company.
  — Newsweek Special Edition, Newsweek, 23 Feb. 2018
• As The Times reported: Homendy was visibly exasperated by the loss of the black box recording.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• Mr Trump, exasperated with the war, was close to signing an agreement with the Taliban that would have begun the process of American withdrawal.
  — The Economist, 10 Sep. 2019
• Iraq is also in the midst of an economic crisis sparked by a global downturn in oil prices and exasperated by years of corruption and waste.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• My issue with the grips was exasperated by my test bike being fitted with the shorter M-type handlebar.
  — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 2 July 2019
• The tense effort to hold the line on Ukraine’s behalf left some of Kyiv’s strongest advocates exhausted and exasperated.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• The story of the Showbox music venue is exasperating to those who warned that Seattle’s growth-on-steroids policies would gentrify the city and sweep away its history.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2018
• But here are three of the most common things non-disabled people say and do, with the best intentions, that tend to exhaust and exasperate people with disabilities.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Banks, meanwhile, is more or less on autopilot as a grizzled, cantankerous veteran exasperated with his less experienced peers.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024