Example sentences for: frustrating

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

  • Nothing is more frustrating than spending an hour on the phone with a journalist and then seeing an article with your competitor's name in place of your own.

  • Particularly frustrating for abstainers: A cry of "down in front" will not dampen a rollicking Wave, so sight lines are blocked at regular time intervals.

  • No, the movie's themes are enormously resonant, which makes its doddering tastefulness that much more frustrating.

  • On the other hand, if people care about the pecking order, you and your neighbor can get involved in a costly and futile "arms race," sacrificing valuable leisure in your mutually frustrating efforts to be the top earner on the block.

  • The style is naturalistic; the plot is your basic love triangle, with a lesbian twist: Adele, whose butch forthrightness makes her an obvious stand-in for Stein, falls for a frustrating coquette, Helen, who returns her love but can't commit because she's already beholden to Mabel, a rich, withered-spinster type.


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