How To Use Exasperate In A Sentence

‘No Clymer, I want you to try serving underhand,’ Mrs. Toth said, sounding exasperated.
When guerrilla or partisan warfare further exasperated him, Grant proposed radical measures.
As much as the Formosan exasperated him, Man could not help being fascinated by the story of his life. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
Jahn glanced at his chopsticks, bento lunch, and then gave him an exasperated look.
Exasperated, Emma went herself one evening to the spot where Collymore rigged his scales on the limb of a sea grape.

She pitched her voice here to sound slightly exasperated, slightly weary - not angry.
Exasperated with the straitlaced protocols of concertgoing, Mr. Kantor and Mr. Handler decided to open a club that would present an eclectic mix of programming, not just old and new works from the classical music tradition, but rock, jazz, world music and anything else that might entice people, especially young people, who are curious about out-there music and care little about labels. DesignerBlog
'Why won't you answer me?' he asked in an exasperated voice.
As it was my job to lean out and whisper into the sentry's "pearly," I got rather exasperated. Fanny Goes to War
But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin.
Exasperated by the apparent chronic incompetence of the new Children and Family Court Advisory Service, he sacked the entire board.
If she makes one really good observation but then at another point she exasperates you with her complete failure to at all get what you're trying to tell her, do you dump her or give it another try?
In contrast to his vigour and emotional buoyancy later in seeing off the so-called fuel blockade, this dark episode was equally to infuriate, exhaust and exasperate the First Minister.
The reader will feel unread, uneducated, utterly exasperated with him or herself for missing the reference entirely.
In the past, the President notoriously spent immense amounts of time poring over the, leading one exasperated congressman to describe her as a "fussbudget" (defined by the American Heritage dictionary as a "person who fusses over trifles. Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin.
A cousin, exasperatedly and somewhat self-righteously, called him a crybaby.
More often than not her exasperated and slightly pained expression could only hint at the atrocities I had committed upon her native tongue.
The teachers were exasperated at / by Bob's cheat in the examination.
The controversy raged for almost a century before an exasperated American anatomist pointed out that "English-speaking researchers were pulling down English-language publications and non-English-speakers were dipping into exclusively non-English publications and both camps were simply rehashing what they'd read. China's Cuddly Emissaries
For a long time they wouldn't believe him to be a lord at all, "because he spoke Irish"; and the breaking up of the rundale system, under which they had lived in higgledy-piggledy laziness, exasperated them greatly. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
Mum resignedly started hunting around for something that looked like an “edger” while Dad began to get exasperated with the waiting. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
He stared for one more minute then collapsed into his wicker chair, exasperated.
Generally unassertive in a meandering current affairs debate and seemingly exasperated at having to read the Sunday papers ‘so fast’, at times he seemed overwhelmed.
Maggie saw Hermione shake exasperated shoulders and suddenly feared that she might walk away.
With an exasperated cluck of his tongue he rushed to the shower, and got ready.
This unfortunately exasperates too much hypocrisy in the GOP and Sen. Ensign pushing their so-called "family/traditional values" onto to others for political purposes, while having their own indiscretions. Sen. John Ensign resigns GOP leadership post
The officer, puled and exasperated at the girl's insistence that she was neither doped nor molested by her male comrades in the DSE, muttered that, 'It couldn't be possible .... Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin.
`Oh, Richard," she said exasperatedly, `I've had to reshoot. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
His slightly exasperated response is that being an activist requires media - savvy.
He's becoming increasingly exasperated with the situation.
She loved her sister dearly and always would, but sometimes Staicie had the infuriating knack of being able to effortlessly exasperate a saint.
What exasperated driver hasn't wanted to scream at the person in the passenger seat and snatch the map in a fit of pique?
The entire scene was roped off, and exasperated policemen were shooing annoying news reporters away from the building.
No level of incompetence or failure would either exasperate or disconcert him.
If encounter passenger flow rush hour and holiday, criterion traffic situation is more exasperate.
He had had no expectation of doing more than exasperate, and supply a distraction.
Those of us who toil every day at the Headquarters of the United Nations have become a little exasperated at seeing our institutional obituaries in the press.
An exasperated Mr. Hoyer decried the Republican's unwillingness to deal, and said that Republicans "intentionally walk more than Barry Bonds," referring to the onetime baseball player who has more intentional walks than any other player in history. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
If she was quite exasperated with the stupidity of Yakub, the dvornik, she pretended to curse him in a phrase of her own invention, a mixture of Hebrew and Russian, which, translated, said, "Mayst thou have gold and silver in thy bosom"; but to the choreman, who was not a linguist, the mongrel phrase conveyed a sense of his delinquency. The Promised Land
Trochaics have rarely been more amusingly used than in Lewis Carroll's 'Hiawatha's Photographing', in which Hiawatha is exasperatedly trying to take portraits of a very tiresome and camera-conscious Victorian family.
Although motorists have been exasperated by delays caused by the repairs, the work hasn't cost taxpayers a penny.
You are left exhausted, exasperated, foul-tempered, and ready to start throwing things yourself.
And even though he says small-town reserve exasperates him, he can still turn up on a film set and think of himself as the ‘teuchter’ - his description - just doon frae the Spey Valley.
What reasonable people on both sides of the argument share is a common desire for fairness, but what exasperates many is that tolerance should extend to those who refuse to display any of that quality to their neighbours.
When asked pointedly why he can't accept the truth, Cody replies, exasperated, "Because I got a better sense of history than that!"
He's becoming increasingly exasperated with the situation.
We are the Marthas -- trudging our daily rounds, oppressed with sense of the duties that must be done, with the righteous feeling of the hardness of our lot; and these light-hearts, these trouble-shirkers, this corkiness of youth, exasperate us enormously. Once Aboard the Lugger
Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
Exasperated, she threw down her eyeliner pencil, and merely stormed out of the room.
An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer.
Constant mulling had left Father Vic afflicted with a wide array of nervous tics, small flinches and exasperated sighs.
Yes, their coquettery and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love.
In the end, the exasperated adults were compelled to employ the services of a piper, who bewitched the children with music and led them into a hollow mountain.
Let him be ever so exasperated, a comic song -- _a good comic_ song, mind you -- never fails to soothe him. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
I am also aware that the only reason it actually exasperates me is that I do like it quite a lot. REVIEW: Torchwood: Children of Earth
This has exasperated Pepper: ‘If Holyrood cannot verify [wood sourcing], then this totemic building with its fine aspirations of ethical purchasing will have to be dismissed as greenwash,’ he said.
The comic opera aspect of Berlusconi that so exasperates critics invites comparisons with Mussolini, but the real similarity is that both men promoted a kind of "anti-politics.
When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed. Daily Strength for Daily Needs
A newspaper in January 1767 describes a blacksmith from Bridgwater in Somerset—fifteen miles from Cheddar—who went shooting on Christmas day: On Pallet Hill he espied a large flight of old ravens, fired and killed two, which so exasperated the rest, that they immediately descended upon him, and plied their bills and claws so dextrously about his head and face that notwithstanding all possible care was taken of him, he died last Monday. A Year on the Wing
'Why won't you answer me?' he asked in an exasperated voice.
He had not intended this kind of recrimination, but he was exasperated with her wearied acceptance of his reproaches and by a sudden conviction that his long-cherished grievance against her now that he had voiced it was inadequate, mean, and trifling. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
`Oh, Richard," she said exasperatedly, `I've had to reshoot. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Exasperated, Ted bent his upper body onto the table so that he was at eye level with Jacob.
This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
Hugh spotted Rose's exasperated look in the direction of the mess. JUST BETWEEN US
It exasperates the less extravagantly gifted but I have never thought that it reveals a submissiveness of mind. VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
The teachers were exasperated at / by Bob's cheat in the examination.
"No, " he said, making her give an exasperated grunt.
For a moment during this litany, her tone of voice takes on a sharp, exasperated edge.
The sheer futility of it all exasperates her.
He let an exasperated sigh escape his lips, what had he done now?
What but butchery by piecemeal can, under such circumstances, be expected from a man brutal enough at first to 'maim' and 'disable' him, and now exasperated by being obliged to pay his full value to the master, and to have, in addition, the daily care and expense of his maintenance. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
The Ladrones were much exasperated, and determined to revenge themselves.
No one was more exasperated than Kofi Annan, who had been hoping that 2005 might see his own recovery and that of the UN as well from what he called the annus horribilis of 2004—especially since his term would expire at the end of 2006. The Great Experiment
If one were, we would see it looming in the sky, an exasperated astrophysicist noted. Times, Sunday Times
Fathers , do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them the training and instruction of the Lord.
Now Warne looks exasperated, McGrath is a drinks waiter with a dicky elbow and dodgy ankle and the Australian cheerleaders have mislaid their pom-poms.
Instead of expert Cys, there were exasperated sighs on both sides. World Series PHOTOS: Giants Top Rangers, 11-7, In Game 1
The body-language and exasperated laughter of tourists made it clear that they really believed I had queue-jumped.
This is partly because he is compassionate about the suffering of ordinary Europeans, but also exasperated by their masochism and perverseness.
Wondering, and a bit exasperated, I spurred straight up the bank, and when I had reached the high benchland loped to a point that overlooked the little valley a full mile up and down. Raw Gold A Novel
She has always been at all times quite wonderful, and I love her, and get exasperated by her. THE GOLDEN LION
I recall Edward feeling frustrated and exasperated with this new attempt to defame him and discredit his work, but as usual, the attempt failed.
With an exasperated sigh, she stood and sat by the fire, poking the embers absent-mindedly with a stick.
Constant mulling had left Father Vic afflicted with a wide array of nervous tics, small flinches and exasperated sighs.
Page 146 enough at first to 'maim' and 'disable' him, and now exasperated by being obliged to pay his full value to the master, and to have, in addition, the daily care and expense of his maintenance. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
If she was quite exasperated with the stupidity of Yakub, the dvornik, she pretended to curse him in a phrase of her own invention, a mixture of Hebrew and Russian, which, translated, said, "Mayst thou have gold and silver in thy bosom"; but to the choreman, who was not a linguist, the mongrel phrase conveyed a sense of his delinquency. The Promised Land
He sometimes exasperates his journalistic contacts with a steady stream of press releases crammed with statistics, but it earned him kudos and contacts with the Scottish media that are now paying off.
The virginal Mina (Cindy Marie Small) is no shrinking violent and is understandably exasperated by the Victorian prudishness of fiancé Jonathan Harker.
She gave an exasperated sigh as she turned the steering wheel to the right to make a turn.
She heaves a loud, exasperated sigh, and obviously decides it's futile to argue with me.
It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat, directed neither to work nor to leisure.
‘I thought you were teleporting outside the room,’ one young man said in an exasperated tone when he saw Darius.
Reader! when you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him. Swann's Way
Some supporters have grown exasperated by his inconsistent crossing.
Privately, court officials admit they are becoming increasingly exasperated by the very system they serve.
Eliot shows us that nature does give boys and girls their own small advantages in life, but it is our socialization that exasperates them to such an extreme that we think that bravery is masculine and the need for emotional attention is feminine. Archive 2009-11-01
There, where the Atlantic rollers spend themselves on jumbled dolosse, is what Transnet's exasperated CEO, Maria Ramos, calls a "dot" on the map of the bay that may be subject to reclamation. Mail & Guardian Online
But this havoc did not last long; for the silvered party, exasperated by their loss, resolved to perish or stop her progress; and having posted an archer in ambuscado on a distant angle, together with a knight-errant, her highness fell into their hands and was carried out of the field. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
But she became exasperated by the saga and decided she wanted her cash back.
Deadpan humour abounds and the curmudgeonly Fin has a whole repertoire of exasperated sighs and steely stares as he attempts to bite the hand of friendship.
She looked at him, casting him an irritating, exasperated look.
To headache and backache, to vain cravings for more fresh air, and to an inequality of spirits and temper to which Eleanor and I patiently submitted, Matilda still added a cough, which seemed to exasperate madame as much as her stupidity. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
But speculation that he may quit Britain for America exasperates him.
Yet this apparent stonewalling has exasperated the Hong Kong press, which portrays her as imperious and arrogant.
Most of the main characters are emotionally balked men who hide from their exasperated, shrewish wives by throwing themselves into their work and who are given to as in one story "building tall towers of self-pity and then watching them sway. Strained Separations
I know I exasperate you," she said cheerfully as she faced her mother. THE THORN BIRDS
I am also getting exasperated with the apparent lack of will to achieve our deadline.
As much as the Formosan exasperated him, Man could not help being fascinated by the story of his life. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
He trembled at the thought of Arthur meeting this strange, wild, exasperated scatterling -- perhaps on the morrow -- in the very height of his passions. Night and Morning, Volume 2
had an exasperated look on his face
It's brilliant to see people reacting with this gentle, exasperated humour rather than resorting to hateful tirades and overzealous flag flying.
As for her, she's just plain exasperated, what with that nose hanging off her face and a score pounding nonstop at her temples.
Though the monk admits to some concern about death by a staged accident, more time behind bars he can contemplate with an equanimity that exasperates authorities.
He has transformed the team but his tendency to play the old soldier with a ready excuse when things go wrong exasperates Spurs fans. Tottenham Hotspur Premier League 2011-12 team guide
Be in hospital, move the mutation that waits for an environment, what can cause gawkish symptom is exasperate, bring about melancholia shape to wait.
She gave an exasperated laugh, a sharp exhalation of air. Crossed
But his vanity, pettiness and egocentrism exasperated even his closest friends.
The exasperated toqui no sooner learnt the arrival of the missionaries at Ilicura, than he hastened to that place with two hundred horse, and slew them all with their defender Utiflame. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
felt exasperated beyond endurance
After this multiloquent festival, the Siberian merchants, naturally exasperated, seized upon Mr. Collins, and an unhappy countryman of his who was present, and tossed them after the fashion of Sancho Panza. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
He exasperates his servant Sganarelle and must constantly be extricated from sticky situations by his disapproving father. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
His spiteful eyes grinned at the white fluid malignly, as if whatever it emblemed of purity, of simplicity, exasperated him. The Proud Prince
It is hypnotically disturbing to watch a pair of 10-year-old twins take turns speaking their mother's exasperated love for them.
But his vanity, pettiness and egocentrism exasperated even his closest friends.
Kieran blew a lock of hair out of his eyes, exasperated.
* click click** loud exasperate sigh* Are you still crying? Kottu
Le Baron avait causé politique toute la soirée," which conversation apparently so exasperated the baronne and a young cousin that they wandered out into the village, which they immediately set by the ears. Chateau and Country Life in France
Exasperated, Emma went herself one evening to the spot where Collymore rigged his scales on the limb of a sea grape.
He made an exasperated noise and said, ‘You know I meant that she knows you better than I know you, not she knows you better than she knows me, you grammar fiend.’
Exasperated and frustrated, they dispersed in different directions, never to come together again.
Wednesday's tailpiece about the motor mower that had been out of action for awhile and the exasperated wife trying to shame her husband by cutting the lawn with nail scissors, struck a chord.
If the criticism exasperates Arsène Wenger, then it also grates like fingernails on a chalkboard with the players. Gaël Clichy: Ending Arsenal trophy drought has become an obsession
The inspector is not always right, and is often as exasperated and confused as any noir protagonist.
Yes, their coquettishness and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love.
I was exasperated by all the noise.
We were exasperated at his ill behaviour.
That foundation-knows-best attitude exasperates Mayor Dave Bing and City Hall officials, who have sought to reassure Detroiters that their voices, not outsiders, will guide efforts to rebuild the city. Revival Bid Pits Detroit vs. Donor
Unorthodoxy can deflate and exasperate in equal measure. Times, Sunday Times
Jacko bounded like a piece of indiarubber on to Gurney's head; next moment he was clinging to the edge of the mainsail, and the next he was comfortably seated on the top of the mast, where he proceeded calmly and leisurely to "ait" the biscuit in the face of its exasperated and rightful owner. The Red Eric
Eventually a letter arrived from London in response to Moran's exasperated inquiries about his elder son.
Because the tribal character of Libyan society exasperates and demands such a war, he claimed. Gaddafis warn their departure would lead to endless war in Libya. Why?
This lack of identity had exasperated Richard Montacune but it gave Philippa confidence.
Sometimes Evie was exasperated at her mother's impracticality.
I know I exasperate you," she said cheerfully as she faced her mother. THE THORN BIRDS
His refusal to cooperate has exasperated his lawyers.
Adam tries to object to this and other outrages, but he's so flustered that all that comes out are exasperated spoonerisms.

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