Example sentences for: exasperation

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

  • Exasperation with Critical Path,

  • I fear that too many people will throw up their hands in exasperation at Updike's way of appealing for love by presenting his heroes as ever more odious or cantankerous, and too many other people will celebrate the book mostly for its secondary virtues--its astronomical wonders sailing through the futuristic sky, the human-chomping metal animals, a few political jokes.

  • On one occasion, as our deliberations were drawing to a close after many months, we came to a particularly niggling point of dispute regarding the cost of some phase of the project--I have forgotten which--and, in frustration and exasperation, I burst out with, You must realize that if you want to earn a penny, you've got to spend a penny!, whereupon, much to my consternation, all those present fell about laughing merrily.

  • Berger could only reply in exasperation that Saddam had "capitulated" on the key issue of weapons inspections.

  • Winnicott once commented in some exasperation that Bettelheim "is difficult to read simply because he says everything and there is nothing to be said that one could be certain has not been said by him."


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