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Example sentences for: annoy

How can you use “annoy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Reed's political tactics occasionally annoy the ideologues of the religious right.
d) Yes, just to annoy Clinton.
These pronouncements on subjective issues annoy me no end.
The answers are a nice springboard for talking about: 1) how you go about reforming language, and what limitations you'd face (just saying it won't make it so); 2) how expressions like "you know" actually function linguistically (people aren't saying "you know" just to annoy you, even if that's the effect); and 3) the nature of language etiquette, taboo, euphemism, and context.
President Bush purposely mispronounced "Saddam Hussein" to annoy the Iraqi leader, while Iraqi newsreaders retaliated by mispronouncing Bush so that, in Arabic, it meant "nothing."