How to Use exasperating in a Sentence

exasperating

adjective
  • One of the most exasperating parts of the Gregg Berhalter U.S.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • There’s an exasperating trend in superhero movies that has reached the end of its shelf life and needs to be chucked.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • As portrayed by Drea and Salazar, Stefan and Katie are easy to like, even at their most exasperating.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Rivers had turned 25 a month before the exasperating loss to the Patriots.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 May 2024
  • One of the more exasperating TV trends of the last few years is shows telling stories out of chronological order for no good reason.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2022
  • For the owners, the predicament can be exasperating and stressful.
    Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
  • The exasperating grind of his worst stretch as a Dodger also appeared to mentally be wearing him out.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Still, these exasperating people should be free to ignore your very sound advice and remain in your care.
    New York Times, 13 July 2021
  • The endings of those sets were just as memorable for something that used to feel exasperating, but rarely unnerving: the sheer crush of people making their way away from the stage.
    New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • Tracking Lake’s journey to her current role has been an exasperating prospect for many who knew her as an anchor in Phoenix - a spiral of questions with no end.
    Ruby Cramer, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • He’s made the Pro Bowl twice, a total abnormally low for his impact due to an exasperating run of injuries.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • As such, we are left with just the debate to respond to, which in its exasperating back and forth quickly becomes the dramatic equivalent of the whataboutism the characters condemn.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The lack of a consistent voice can get confusing and exasperating.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Four losses that might come back to haunt Dallas at season’s end, none more exasperating than Sunday’s result.
    Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Parker has to spend these early episodes in mourning, which is both logical and exasperating.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Visible symptoms ranging from weight gain, acne, and skin tags to hirsutism and hair loss can be exasperating.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 21 July 2023
  • For moviegoers, there is no more delicious—or more exasperating—enticement than the art of the withheld.
    The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
  • The Vikings, then still on the fringe of the playoff race, took their most inexcusable loss in an exasperating season that essentially sealed the firing of coach Mike Zimmer one month later.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2022
  • He was quickly flown back to Moscow, a trial date was no less quickly set — and then the turgid legal process of one exasperating delay after another took command of events.
    Howard Blum, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • After sitting for so long in an exasperating holding pattern, the Americans found a rhythm.
    Matt Cohen, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2022
  • That these men are essentially right about each other has made the proceedings no less exasperating for their constituents.
    New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The aloof and elusive nature of cats is perhaps their most distinctive feature, endearing to some and exasperating to others.
    Andrew C. Kitchener, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • Advertisement Armour, an expert in tort law, said the idea that safety was the sole criterion was exasperating and glib.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
  • Then a fadeout leaves the plot’s principal mystery dangling in a way more exasperating than enigmatic.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Even for those who have been cautious, the cycle of hope for a return to normalcy followed by the disappointment of rising cases has become exasperating.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
  • His recklessness gives rise to the movie’s central tension, which kicks off at the wrap party for Tomas’s apparently exasperating film (also called Passages).
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That provides a modicum of a happy face on something that otherwise is decidedly a sad and exasperating face.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • That’s the unique and exasperating brutality of Alzheimer’s disease.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Present and past mingle in both white and Black characters’ minds; thus the often exasperating, incohesive narrative coming out of their thoughts.
    Michael Gorra, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020

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