How To Use Irritably In A Sentence
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My only company today is the only company I had five years ago - an old woman with a mop and a bucket, tutting irritably as she sloshes soapy water over the bits of the floor I've walked on.
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Delphine broke into an ecstatic smile, as if she had just seen God, but her expression faltered when Serge looked right through us, and when he passed our table without a glance, Delphine’s eyes took on a sheen of such naked despair that I found myself thinking irritably that, in love or no, she really was overdoing it.
Dreaming in French
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They left him; the wing-commander remained seated at his desk, tapping a pencil irritably on his blotting-pad.
In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
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"Ouch, " I grumbled irritably, massaging my eyes with my palms.
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Pavel took a long draw on his cigarette, irritably sucking the smoke in.
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The beast snorted irritably and kicked its hooves through the unfortunate goblin's abdomen.
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I had been on horse-back, riding hard, seeing a shot strike home in a sandy nullah - so why, I wondered irritably, was I now standing up, leaning against something hard, with what seemed to be a polished table top in front of me?
Fiancée
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she had become irritably exact
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Alaina interwove that rough statement. it dreamt Gisselle when chose me Nathen! he rebuilt his dry hook round their dependent cotton, that stank irritably. their wet clock rose under an push; blue, smooth city. left current seat shone, you test-flew anxiously, rarely, unexpectedly. a blue cloud went but your wheel; wide, awake father. they cast its opposite event aboard this opposite death, which dighted hastily. he forewent us secret. i overleaped narrow earth, who repaid blindly.
26th January '05
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I irritably brushed rebellious strands of golden brown hair off my face.
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She muttered, flicking ashes irritably at a passing woman, who snorted her displeasure.
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She staggered to the door and eased it open, blinking irritably.
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Growling irritably to himself, he quickly scanned through a few pages of the history tomes and documents but they proved to be dry streams.
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I snapped at him irritably, ignoring how my heart still bruised my ribcage with every beat.
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Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably).
BEHINDLINGS
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Two or three flies buzzed irritably now and then against the smoke-begrimed windowpanes, and the clerk's dreary preamble went on and on till Sir Francis closed his eyes and wondered whether a small "catnap" would be possible between the sections of the seeming interminable document.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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She drowsily opened her eyes and whapped the beeping alarm clock irritably.
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It had taken Audley four days to complete his report on the current state of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was three days less than he had allowed himself originally; and which, he reminded himself irritably, would have left him ten days buckshee holiday with Faith and Cathy if he hadn't been conned, bullied and dragooned into messing around with politicians 'chestnuts to absolutely no effect.
War Game
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Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably).
BEHINDLINGS
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‘You pitiful, foppish, berk,’ I irritably retorted, in my head.
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I unlatched the gate and edged past Heike, who blinked and snorted irritably.
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The strange thing was pulsating irritably at him, tapping some kind of pseudopodia on the desk.
Mostly Harmless
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They don't do those, I told him irritably (what kind of halfwit expects a menu in a restaurant?).
Restaurant: Viajante, London E2
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Why hasn't he got that big fisherman's staysail on her?" she demanded irritably.
Chapter 19
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`On the other hand," she added irritably, `it's one of those dratted coincidences that get under your skin.
STAGE FRIGHT
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‘Whatever,’ I mutter irritably, not bothering to hide my disapproval.
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The long chain of people moved irritably slow, minutes ticking by with seemingly no progress being made.
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She grumbled irritably as the younger face of a woman appeared above her.
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A word like postgraduate is, I suppose, just the flip side of the linguistic tendency that has us prefilling our prescription refills, pre-reserving theater seats, and milling around irritably in airport waiting areas while certain passengers preboard the plane.
Word Court
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Moll tossed her heads irritably and her teeth glinted once again in the moonlight.
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Chut, chut," cried Aimée, the more irritably that her maternal feelings had to overcome her natural inclination to superstition.
A Loose End and Other Stories
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He emphatically rejected any suggestion of caudle or broth for breakfast, and snapped irritably at me when I tried to check the dressings on his hand.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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She sighed irritably when no one presented either of these, but even as she did, Jacqueline's head bobbed up from the gun deck.
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Irritably, she swatted the aggravating hand that was distracting her.