How To Use Frustrating In A Sentence

It's frustrating, and makes the game look unpolished.
This circumstance makes this most recent vote doubly frustrating.
Of course, the failed indicator light was frustrating our efforts to read the indication.
The frustrating part for the Scots is that the Czechs, while occasionally slick in attack, appeared glaringly vulnerable in defence. Strikerless Scotland's negative approach is punished by Czechs
It is becoming increasingly frustrating to witness teams forfeiting matches for one reason or the other.

It is very frustrating for a sponsor to agree to a scope/schedule/cost variance in one month, only to have the project manager come back the next month looking for an additional variance.
Penelope-like, she both weaves a narrative and contextual account of Lippi's life and work and unpicks her handiwork, creatively frustrating the reader's expectation of biographical closure.
The title of the book gave me the willies--I could only think of my moms 1947 Singer with the giy-normous buttonhole attachment and how many frustrating hours she spent trying to get it to work, not to mention the ruffler . Toys! Wonderful toys! - A Dress A Day
This is an immensely frustrating experience for the student.
It was so stupid, so frustrating, so embarrassingly moronic, that it made her want to tear her hair out.
It must have been extremely frustrating for the authors to have to include an errata slip correcting errors in two of the tables.
Criminal law is a subject of great complexity which students find both fascinating and frustrating.
Finding logic in the rules of kashrut is a frustrating task, as the anthropologist Marvin Harris entertainingly recounts in his book The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig. The Kosher Conversion
The 1990 undercount also proved frustrating for scholars who use demographic data to conduct their research.
Jenson, it must have been frustrating feeling you couldn't go any faster and he was closing on you relentlessly.
The frustrating thing is that Jew Boy is very much a book of two parts.
These days, with long lines, invasive x-rays requiring near-nudity, constant delays, smaller, more crowded planes and the threat of terrorism, the flying experience is frustrating and challenging enough without some buffoon sitting next to me making the flight even more unpleasant. Andy Ostroy: Ostroy's List of Air-Travel Don'ts
I think it's the lack of undo function that makes it so frustrating.
One of the reasons he was so hated was because he was frustrating what they wanted.
Every culture has its own shared, socialized habitual responses, which are charming when on a holiday, but for immigrants trying to function on a daily basis they can be downright frustrating.
While Currie is extremely polite and diplomatic, it is clear he finds these frustrating and unhelpful.
It was a bit strange really, and very frustrating especially as we had a chance to get something from the game.
It's always frustrating to watch an artist with top-shelf talent reach that inadvertently satiated moment when there's really nothing important to say, nothing to add.
After 33 years, the photographic gallery has not only outgrown its premises, tucked away frustratingly out of view in Castlegate but, more contentiously, it has outgrown York too.
On any given day, interaction with hairdressers, wait staff, bank tellers, and store clerks may be a challenging, if not frustrating experience.
There were several instances where my voice commands went unanswered, which was particularly frustrating in the heat of battle.
but Hulu does not air my favourite TV shows, I have to go to these websites and then their episodes aren't closed captioned, which is frustrating. Hulu Looking for Revenue Options, May Charge for Older Episodes from Popular Shows | /Film
We spent a frustrating five minutes while the pilot warmed up the engines.
You wonder how frustrating it must be, still scrabbling to plug holes in low budgets after years of eager critical acclaim?
If this week's world appears frustratingly elusive or evasive, you're not wrong.
As a crossword puzzler myself and the daughter of a crossword addict who competed in the national competition filmed for the movie Wordplay, I know both how fun and frustrating they can be. What's the Connection?: Winning...and Losing
The frustrating thing is that this multisided, Darwinian foodkampf is utterly necessary; nobody has the option of resigning his or her commission. Colby Cosh
Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued.
She was alive, but everlastingly inaccessible, and Alberg found this baffling and frustrating. SLEEP WHILE I SING
He lost engine power after lap 15 and it was a long slow frustrating race for the Aussie.
A soldier's soldier, he liked to be photographed in a combat jacket festooned with grenades and found his four-star commands frustrating.
During lunch or whenever Amy was with Alex, they flirted all the time and it was very frustrating to see the girl that was supposed to be ‘his’ flirt with someone else.
A simple chat with her could be downright frustrating when she didn't understand half of the euphemisms being used.
But frustratingly the bilabials were noticeably missing.
They were frustratingly denied by late deflections or timely interventions.
It does get frustrating fighting so many losing battles, but I never expected anything different.
Both were mysterious, flirtatious and frustratingly elusive about their origins. Times, Sunday Times
There's nothing more frustrating for a do-it-yourself paperhanger than to run out of wallpaper just a few feet short of finishing a project.
But with the visitors frustrating their illustrious opponents and Milan's nerves jangling, the league leaders were awarded a dubious spot-kick four minutes from the end when Empoli goalkeeper Daniele Balli collided with Jon Dahl Tomasson.
Frustratingly, these pensées are almost invariably generalized.
In the next three one-dayers I didn't play and it was like really frustrating for me.
I have had to take drastic actions by keeping the grocery cart between me and said person, frustrating the bagger at the end of the line for not having the ability to reach my cart.
He is coping with local government bureaucracy and finds the system not very frustrating.
Several hugs for Matt, many ogles at incredibly hot guys, and one hour of frustrating luggage checking later, four harassed but extremely excited girls huddled around Rachel, wishing her luck.
A patchwork of state regulations persist in his wake, frustrating the efforts of lawyers wishing to shill for themselves on TV.
This absolutely eliminates countless rewrites, which is time consuming and frustrating. Archive 2009-02-01
No, it's not the frustrating obstacle course of shoe removal, sweeps and patdowns, oppressive crowds, interminable queues, perspiratory delays and airplane food (or lack of it) that makes every trip a challenge. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Fear of Flying: Ruminating on Air Travel
Anyone who has moved house, remortgaged, or had to draw up a party wall agreement with their neighbours recently don't get me started will know that even corresponding with a solicitor, let alone engaging their "help", can be a costly and frustrating business. Even Mervyn King is losing faith in Osborne
Ms. Jones says "persnickety" details in recipes, such as asking for a specific size onion, mandating "fussy" ways of cutting vegetables and listing expensive or hard-to-find ingredients, are frustrating home cooks. A Shift to Recipe-less Cooking
A reminder that Englishmen have more than grunt and guts is badly required, and what will be so frustrating if changes are not made is that the players are ready and waiting for the opportunity.
Right now its all a little bit frustrating really.
Despite two hours of frustrating redialing and reloading of webpages, some 26,000 Massachusetts residents obtained rebate forms, and 13,000 more were put on a waiting list. Mouse Print » 2010 » April
Yet for a story about longing for home, it can be frustratingly vague about where we are and what is going on. Times, Sunday Times
A lesson had been learned, but not fully accepted im-mediately, and it was enormously frustrating.
Often, persons with low frustration tolerance experience a strong impulse to escape from, or avoid frustrating situations.
This all combined to make an experience that I can only define as " Frustrating.
The most frustrating thing about the debate Bill Gates has started is that the term creative capitalism is so vague. Creative Capitalism
Maria Luisa has been a frustrating filly for punters to follow even though she has paid her way for her connections throughout the season.
Liverpool, which routed both United and Villa before the two-week international break, looked set to squander the title lifeline those results provided in a frustrating match at Fulham. Undefined
Her attitude towards men and relationships was frustrating to say the least.
For professionals accustomed to finding quick resolutions to pressing financial challenges, that can be frustrating.
God works in wondrous ways destroying the wisdom of the wise and frustrating the intelligence of the intelligent (1 Cor 1: 19). The Chinese are Coming
I also used my first nautiloid model sculpting time a bit more than a half hour, painting time with water colours many frustrating hours... to make some photos of a prehistoric underwater diorama by photographing in front of a page from a book about the prehistoric seas: Color Underwater
She was so frustrating sometimes that he felt like throwing in the germ filled towel he called their friendship.
Whilst it could be argued that it is po-faced to talk about truth in the biography of a fictional character, the counter-argument is that the constant toying with fiction and fact is ultimately frustrating.
But yeah, it was a bit frustrating at times.
Such patients' insistence that the physician pursue somatic symptoms until a medical diagnosis is obtained can be significantly frustrating.
Choosing a new book for your reading group can be frustratingly hit and miss. Times, Sunday Times
Choosing a new book for your reading group can be frustratingly hit and miss. Times, Sunday Times
I operated from the presumption that silence and no comment was frustrating per se. Senate Sergeant at Arms Joins Facebook To Apologize To Inaugural Ticket Holders - The Consumerist
Smith's fearsomely focused narratives and majestically brutal accompaniment are alternately highlighted or hamstrung by perverse and frustrating production decisions.
But one of the most scary and frustrating is wandering, and often ends with the person being institutionalised.
His perspective remains frustratingly limited. The Times Literary Supplement
Sneaking up on people and garrotting them from behind is a frustratingly difficult option, and the highest rating is accorded to those who can waltz through an entire level and kill only the primary target at the end.
While explanatory texts are frustratingly short and few, photographs showing the white-robed monks serving meals in the unadorned white-walled refectory, studying in the book-lined scriptorium and making mustard and face cream in their new workhouse convey better than any script the fullness of experience possible in even the sparest settings. The Pared Minimum
Negotiating with them proved to be persistently frustrating for the English.
He has always been frustratingly inconsistent. Times, Sunday Times
As long as they don't get wind of how frustrating working for the national laboratories such as Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Livermore can be. Russ Wellen: Nuclear Weapons Just Not Sexy Anymore
The continuing civil war is frustrating the efforts of relief agencies to feed thousands of famine victims.
Evidently she has committed some petty crime, but she's frustratingly vague about it. Christianity Today
He has participated in both World Cup outings for South Africa - 2002 being his most frustrating one.
She spent a frustratingly long time studying her phrase book before feeling competent enough to ask a man in a uniform where the train was by pointing to a picture of a train in her guidebook. Rogue Oracle
Also, frustratingly for those who use multiple machines, the list of favourites is tied to a particular machine.
It's been quite some time since I've been horny, and the sensation was both nice and frustrating.
3 - Leaves draw tourists by the droves to come up and gawk, which is never a fun thing because they drive really slowly on the back roads - always frustrating when you're in a hurry somewhere. Autumn in Vermont
It was that Zen attitude at the right times that allowed them to push forward, ultimately frustrating Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick while their title bids came just short. SI.com
Frustratingly for Leeds, they had begun as if determined to give their fans something to cheer about.
I have no idea why this is happening and it is really frustrating both my girlfriend and me.
The craftsmanship is obvious, and the textures it generates are often striking, but the music's lack of harmonic movement is sometimes frustrating. Tüür: Symphony No 6, "Strata"; Noësis
He turned up to speak to journalists in person and reports of subsequent sightings of him were frustratingly vague and contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
The most frustrating aspect of it all is that I have no choice.
Too much is self-indulgent, frustratingly inconsistent and coasting on former glories. The Sun
What makes this affliction especially frustrating is that I feel I properly maintain the machine. Handheld power equipment won’t start? Maybe it’s the ethanol
Standing next to rainforest so dense you couldn't see for more than a few centimetres into it, and hearing the bird so frustratingly close but not being able to see it, is a special sort of torture for twitchers.
I mean, I don't want to have nothing to say when people engage me in conversation on the current topic to which I am totally indifferent; almost nobody I know wants to talk about anything else and it would be frustrating to have to remain mumchance for the next few weeks.
Yes, it's frustrating to have alerts sounded and then have nothing happen.
Frankly, it's frustrating for our journalists and columnists to have to find new ways to rehash the same material.
Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence.
It's frustrating, especially when your mad dodges and leaps bring you into the path of an enemy you couldn't see.
Sometimes, it seems insoluble and very frustrating for those of us who have to ask questions on both sides of the ledger.
In the end, the Irish troops found themselves utterly confused as they became pawns in a frustrating bureaucratic maze.
The more I thought of this scene, the more I realized something – something elusive and yet right in front of me – was missing, though pinning down exactly what I could add to the mix was frustratingly vague. Some Thoughts, Part One – Story « The Graveyard
Somewhat frustratingly they do show the occasional flash of inspiration, generally during their less frequent slower numbers.
Of course, sexual intimacy and fidelity between the sexes can be frustrating and exhausting, and particularly in a society which is increasingly predicated on other values.
In both traditions it is undefinable and unexplainable, elusive, frustratingly near and far, always so close yet just outside intellect's reach.
And, unlike many, it is ready to use straight from the box, thus avoiding frustrating delays.
While This Far by Faith tells good stories, readers who wish to use the book for quick reference may find the book's loose organization a bit frustrating.
Sneaking up on people and garrotting them from behind is a frustratingly difficult option, and the highest rating is accorded to those who can waltz through an entire level and kill only the primary target at the end.
Instead cancer cells — by means that remain frustratingly unclear — create their own network of blood vessels to secure necessary nutrients. Good News and Bad News About Breast Cancer
It is so frustrating that the bleached images of the alien world are so ruggedly handsome and so unjustified and impertinent to the plot at the same time.
During the earlier part of a band's career, this is a hard slog, with lots of frustrating phone calls and unreturned messages.
Yet for many it can remain frustratingly elusive, especially at that critical moment when boldness is required. Times, Sunday Times
Dukinfield are workmanlike rather than spectacular and from the kick-off they displayed their intention of frustrating the home side.
My job can be very frustrating sometimes.
It was a frustrating loss for the Eagles, who let a third quarter time lead evaporate and have now lost their opening two games by margins of less than two goals.
The book is written as a list of questions and answers, and it's frustrating to try to answer the non-code questions because they are often unguessable: Programming Book: The Little Schemer
It's frustrating to watch him carry every scene while his co-stars get given so little.
It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause.
So not only was it frustrating enough having stupid idiots bashing into us, we got caught on the edge of a fight that broke out involving about 15 guys.
Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued.
Sometime afterward (yes, I'm being frustratingly vague about the dates, but that comes with having a crappy memory), I heard that Neil had actually written a six-part Neverwhere series for the BBC back in 1996, and that the book came later (it's been called a novelization of the series, but it's much more than that, as it expands and fully fleshes it out). Tuesday quickies
Rowing was frustrating because there was so much technique involved.
And it was kind of funny, but it was really frustrating at the same time.
He has equivocated, frustrating even ardent supporters like Tauzin; and when he has finally acted, it has been to prolong rather than shorten the telecom slump.
Pass plays could be even more frustrating, since trying to accurately throw a piece of felt with the metal catapult was like trying to thread a needle from across the room.
Unless a skilled refinisher recognizes and deals with this problem regarded by refinishers as a frustrating one, it can ruin a new finish. HOME COMFORTS
Beyond that, as described by an article in New Scientist, explaining it has "proven to be bafflingly, frustratingly, mind-bendingly difficult" (as are most scientifically challenging issues -- think climate change, for example). Ball lightning: real or fantasy?
There's simply no way around the system: it's pedantic, laboured and mind-numbingly frustrating.
It's frustrating for the police so many declined, but the process could only be voluntary and people have the civil right not to be fingerprinted.
The standard pundits' answers to this are frustratingly vague. Times, Sunday Times
He lost his cool and kicked out two stumps during a frustrating day when he beat the bat consistently.
Speed constraints on the World Wide Web can make downloading photographs of merchandise frustratingly slow.
This historical thicket is rendered all but impenetrable by the facts that, as Browning lucidly and vividly demonstrates, German anti-Semitism was hardly a fixed concept but, rather, evolved and mutated with the ever shifting circumstances; that the Nazi regime and its chains of command and decision were highly decentralized — which meant that at any given moment the interpretations and conceptions of, say, Goebbels and Rosenberg concerning the timing and realization of the Final Solution could vary significantly from those of Himmler and Heydrich; and, most important, that the documentary evidence is both vast and frustratingly incomplete. New & Noteworthy
They can also create boring, frustrating mechanical jobs.
We haven't been able to listen to it properly on our unreliable dial-up lines - very frustrating!
I had to unweave several bits during the weaving, which is a pretty frustrating experience. Finally finished!
However, it is frustrating that we did our best to stop these benefits - and I offered to repay it in full when I was flush with cash last year, only to be knocked back!
According to married priest Vaclac Ventura, who now teaches theology in the northeastern city of Olomouc, the years spent in limbo were particularly frustrating. Fathers With Sons
The second major contribution made by the presence of the Church is what we might in shorthand call universalism - not in the technical theological sense, but simply meaning the conviction that every human agent is involved in either creating or frustrating a common good that relates to the whole human race. Faith Communities in a Civil Society - Christian Perspectives
It is just a pity that its transparent and often ill-fitting commercial ambitions make for a frustratingly inconsistent read. Times, Sunday Times
The man could be so frustrating sometimes.
The media warmly applauded the commitment, as a means of frustrating the tsarist bear. Times, Sunday Times
It's very frustrating being ridiculed or ignored when using my broken French in a social setting.
Frustratingly for the family it was the first time they had stored the bikes inside the shed after previously keeping them inside the house.
Frustrating or what - it had been so faint and so brief.
And in some ways, it's good because it's very grounding to come back from all of that and be frustrating to doing school run, and living a normal life, and not kind of wallowing in what you've seen and all the horror and. CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2008
Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.
The reason for the champions' malaise was apparent on Saturday when, for all Newcastle United's last‑ditch gallantry, United should have won by a hatful but were held to the most frustrating of draws. Manchester United lose killer instinct while Dimitar Berbatov waits
There remains, frustratingly for us all, a clear lack of consensus on the best way to proceed. Times, Sunday Times
It's frustrating enough to encounter a big setback, so why torment the kids with snakes.
The take not used, the part not won, consigned him to a profitable but frustrating secondary status in the Hollywood hierarchy.
One of the most frustrating things a concert-goer can experience is witnessing an amazing show, only to buy the band's album and hear a flat, deflated version of what you'd seen and loved on stage.
I live in that cursed keyboard world; it's so terribly lonely, and frustrating when your computer breaks.
It's a tendency that is both endearing and mildly frustrating.
Still, the form that these will take remains frustratingly unclear until the end of the week. Times, Sunday Times
That said, it can be frustrating working with conceited, egotistical players.
But neither has been anything other than frustratingly vague about what it would take to make them happy in Manchester. Times, Sunday Times
The study of dead civilizations is difficult, frustrating, and, ultimately, a thankless job whose results are invariably heaped with criticism.
Mr. McCourt spoke after what he described as a frustrating three-and-a-half hour meeting with MLB executives, led by Rob Manfred , baseball's chief lawyer. McCourt to Fight MLB Takeover
I can imagine how frustrating it must be for those who truly do take it seriously.
True to his promise, the eagle rays are gently flapping and wheeling in the current off the starboard quarter, frustratingly staying just too far away to photograph.
That can make the historical study of empires frustrating, but is also part of what makes it ever-mobile and exciting.
So far this season at least, such momentum has proven frustratingly elusive for City. Times, Sunday Times
Her public statements often convey a frustratingly general commitment to constitutionalism and democracy in a language easily understood by the mass of the population.
It's certainly frustrating when you hold a report from your delegation and a handful of people come to it and you say, 'Why are not more people grabbled by this, involved in this -- what's going on? Women Who Dared - Judy Somberg on CHALLENGES
Yet for many it can remain frustratingly elusive, especially at that critical moment when boldness is required. Times, Sunday Times
The fund management industry has been transparent about performance for some time, but on costs it has been frustratingly opaque. Times, Sunday Times
He was especially skilled in the American style of ‘holding and hitting’ and was capable of frustrating aggressive opponents by repeated clinching and grappling.
This is a fascinating, frustrating, entertaining and perplexing voyage through his psyche: a posthumous psychoanalysis in which the prostrate subject never gets the chance to sit up and protest.
It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque.
Fees sometimes lack transparency and, more frustratingly, are often gratuitous. Times, Sunday Times
I agree that the focus in the ed reform conversation needs to be on concrete action that supports what's best for kids, and I understand that endless collaborative discussion that ultimately yields deadlock is a frustrating waste of everyone's time. Kate Quarfordt: What my High School Students Can Teach Ed Reformers
He is the personification of eclecticism which results in a frustratingly mixed qualitative output.
He added his usual tigerish bite to an unfamiliar midfield role, but Leeds were frustratingly off-colour again.
Choosing a new book for your reading group can be frustratingly hit and miss. Times, Sunday Times
Granted, Cincinatti is doing some pretty good things, butstill frustrating nonetheless. Review, stuff
No, we're talking the Teenage Fanclub of the past few albums, honey kissed pop, sugar-coated melancholia and ultimately a frustrating listen when it should be richly rewarding.
If this seems frustratingly elusive or evasive, remember the truth is always relative
She was alive, but everlastingly inaccessible, and Alberg found this baffling and frustrating. SLEEP WHILE I SING
What I'm finding frustrating from the general media is the continual bias on issues. The Depression scare is ending (Jack Bog's Blog)
Margaret had told Miss Gillies that she was' frustrating her ambition '.
Ryle drove fast when he could, but he found the journey back to London extraordinarily frustrating. DOUBLE DECEIT
One of the most frustrating experiences in life is to be stranded without proper tools.
Poverty and unemployment are frustratingly hard to tackle.
He can be quite moody - a lot of people are very loyal to him but a lot of other people found him very frustrating.
‘The structural problems I set for myself in writing, in a long, snarled, frustrating and sometimes despairing morning of work,’ she says, ‘I can usually unsnarl by running in the afternoon.’
The most frustrating aspect of glossopterid paleobiology is that no one is really certain what these plants looked like.
Even more frustrating was the fact that all these topics were being lampooned in the rich underground repertoire of jokes, doggerel poems, and song parodies circulating among the public.
I found the delays intensely frustrating.
True, what's exhilarating to one person is frustrating to another, so when one considers the vast and growing array of advanced automotive engineering materials it can either look pretty baffling or extremely bounteous.
At the time, he found it frustrating that he could not figure out the right questions to ask.
But it's so frustrating sometimes, 'cause she's got so much baggage that she's carrying around.
It was the latest in a long line of frustrating races for Coulthard.
I personally applaud the newer "egalitarian" minyanim that are springing up in Israel, although, prohibiting women from leading shacharit because of "divrei she-b'k'dushah" is equally frustrating... Chesler Chronicles » Khomeini-ism Comes to Israel: Women of the Wall vs. the Jewish State
Now, Will finds that frustrating, and we can truly understand that.

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