Example sentences for: frustrating

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

  • When you're finally set to sleep or go home, nothing is more frustrating than a patient having unexpected problems.

  • The fact that the pictures are a full page each with captions that seesaw across the bottoms (as palindromes will) would be frustrating were it not for the quality of the drawings.

  • However, the configuration of the roads makes exploration a frustrating affair, as it is impossible to make a circular tour as roads just do not join up.

  • As frustrating as this might be, it does have one advantage of providing plenty of ammunition for games of oneupmanship ! Personally, I like to keep my friends and associates properly informed and up to date and do not hesitate to correct them when they refer to, for instance, “Ivory Coast” (it is now PC to say Côte d'Ivoire, even in English), or “Burma” (which is, of course, Myanmar, capital city Yangon, not “Rangoon”).

  • Today's manuals are much improved, but they still rely on the users' knowledge of the jargon of the computer trade, and much frustrating time is still spent trying to find a given bit of information (while trying to imagine what a computer programmer would be likely to have called it because he was unfamiliar with the jargon of writing, editing, styling, composition, or the other arts and crafts associated with publishing).


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