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Example sentences for: frustrate

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

The cigarette-packaging thing reminds me, in an indirect way, of a larger issue I've always found interesting: the deliberate effort to frustrate or annoy the consumer.
They cannot talk about their feelings; and they cannot really hang out in groups of three or less (someone might think they're gay); and women confuse and frustrate them.
Gradually, spike one's guns came to mean `frustrate the enemy by blocking his intended plan of action.
Almost every paper has a different angle: the Journal notes that the announcement will frustrate efforts to prevent North Korea from testing its own missiles; the NYT says the announcement was done in tandem with a harsh public critique of the United States for selling military technology to Taiwan; the Post puts the missile test in the ninth paragraph of a larger story on increased sorties over the Taiwan Strait by Chinese and Taiwanese military jets.
“Dictionary definitions are not always helpful to the court, and slavish adherence to these should be avoided if the result is to frustrate the intention of the legislation,” he said.