How to Use vexing in a Sentence

vexing

adjective

• And even more vexing, what to do with those who remain?
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Long Covid remains one of the more vexing aspects of Covid-19.
  — Dave Wessner, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• That’s why the decision to pause the J&J vaccine is so vexing.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Apr. 2021
• The White House is eager to demonstrate progress on a vexing host of supply chain snarls.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• Why the Warriors wouldn’t bring him back next season: Bender is one of the more vexing players in the league.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
• What set up the rotation that created the hook is a bit more vexing.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2020
• The issues of race and policing remain some of the most vexing in America.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• But the loss of immigrants may be a more vexing and long-lasting problem.
  — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
• And that can change one of the most vexing problems for women in the American workforce — wages.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• After a year of startling growth, the tech industry faces a more vexing 2021.
  — Sebastian Herrera, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2021
• There are no puddles of grease, no bald patches of dough, no vexing bubbles or stray scorch marks.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
• For all small business owners with PPP loans, the issue of forgiveness has been the most vexing.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 9 June 2020
• Not after the horse owner with the favorite in the Belmont captured the essence of racing’s most vexing issue.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
• But also, there's a bigger fix that could help address the most vexing flight delays.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• After 15 months of lows, rates of these vexing viruses are climbing.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
• Which raises one very vexing question: What to do for an encore?
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• Of the Brontë sisters, Emily has long been considered the most vexing.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2023
• Cera plays him with a slightly flat affect that reads as vexing or charming depending on the scene.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• And yet there is this vexing and tragic problem of homelessness.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023
• Answers to initial questions often spawn a flock of more vexing ones.
  — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• One of the most vexing issues for investors and analysts over the past few months has been how quickly the market has churned through winners and losers.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• The actor wore light taupe—a vexing color sitting somewhere between nude, gray, and beige that it may as well be crowned the true neutral.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024
• But he’s found over the years that even this patch of paradise isn’t immune to the vexing irritations of suburban life.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• But, in the world of U.F.O. hunters, the lack of high-quality photographic proof has always been a vexing problem.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• How data is gathered and used is undoubtedly one of the most vexing questions of our time.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 15 June 2021
• The flagpoles in front of Boston's City Hall have become the source of a most vexing debate about religious freedom in the public square.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2021
• Dealing with mentally ill people has long been a vexing and volatile aspect of patrolling the city.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• Based on all our reader emails, calls and comments, here are our big take always of things that could have prevented some of the most vexing issues.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• The broader discourse about suicide tends to be thwarted by this vexing tension.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• One of the most vexing issues facing many nations today is healthcare.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024