How to Use exasperated in a Sentence

exasperated

adjective

• This might inspire a few exasperated eye rolls, but this is really the pandemic’s doing.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 5 July 2024
• But over the weekend, some users became exasperated with the amount of fake news on the platform.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The belief that a long song was a good song was, judging from the exasperated look of other pub patrons, not widely held 30 years ago.
  — Theunis Bates, theweek, 6 Feb. 2024
• The person saying this, with a sightly exasperated air, is named Jean (Rosy McEwen).
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2023
• Max Homa was visibly a bit exasperated on the 15th tee, flushing his short iron, watching it for a few beats, then bending down to pick up his tee.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2023
• Oh, the exasperated assistant to Downey Jr.’s professor and the older lover to The Captain.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
• In the final photo in the carousel, a seemingly exasperated Bear threw his head back as his mom tried to pose with him inside of what appeared to be a helicopter.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• But Biden throughout his career has resisted staying on message, and teleprompters have been a way for his exasperated aides to try to keep him on track.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
• Like Lucille Ball in hip-hugging denim, Simpson would play the ditzy wife to Lachey’s exasperated husband.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• Sykes’s exasperated calm made a bit on a bizarre Trump speech unforgettable.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• Before responding to the journalist, the bot appeared to pull an exasperated expression, rolling its pale blue eyes to one side.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 10 July 2023
• When the conversation made its way to the challenges facing creatives, Oscar winner Kaufman got candid about the state of affairs and seemed exasperated in the process.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• Her lyrics ring like a diary: exasperated confessions of romance gone wrong, bearing all in a serene and steady voice that begs for deliverance.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
• An exasperated Hurley looked irate in the huddle during a subsequent media timeout at the 15:40 mark.
  — Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 30 Nov. 2021
• His son, who memorized the Latin Mass after several years of going to church with his father, sounds exasperated.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
• An extremely exasperated Yogi punches Marcus in the face to end all the crying and heartfelt apologies.
  — Iana Murray, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
• Now, exasperated employers want to know what makes their workers tick.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 June 2024
• As depicted in the film, McLaughlin’s once-supportive husband becomes exasperated with her long hours at work, and in real life, the couple divorced.
  — Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Costello said in the witness box, at a normal volume − but with an exasperated tone − after a sustained objection.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024
• When someone claiming to be a Qatari emissary tried to renew contact, early this year, Nada was too exasperated to engage.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Onstage, Maniscalco is every bit the exasperated son, husband and father who finds even a trip to the grocery store a painful undertaking.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• By now his toddler son was in the custody of the state’s child protection agency, his father was dying and his exasperated mother was insisting that he be imprisoned.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• After a few takes of this, your would-be photographers will probably be too exasperated and bewildered to protest.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
• Ernst Lubitsch is a comic master, and Stewart and Sullavan do some of their best work as exasperated retail workers turned unlikely lovers.
  — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
• Metz wrote, followed by a collection of exasperated and surprised sounds.
  — Carson Burton, Variety, 12 July 2022
• What your wife has been saying goes beyond exasperated venting.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Having failed to make any progress on the diplomatic or political fronts, an exasperated Hamas finally resorted to the courts.
  — Rory Miller, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2016
• That’s given rise to viral TikToks from exasperated adults.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• Like many exasperated parents, public schools across the United States are adopting increasingly drastic measures to try to pry young people away from their cellphones.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Many were from crypto diehards who regard Coinbase as a bloated corporate sellout, but some came from exasperated investors.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024