Example sentences for: frustrating

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

  • 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.

  • As a dictionary editor, it is frustrating enough to be thought to be producing interchangeable and useless material, but for a respected writer to regard dictionaries as mere compilations with no mind or imagination behind them is especially bad.

  • Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.

  • You'll find your experience with the newspapers less frustrating if you accept the idea that the reporter is there to tell not your story but his or hers.

  • After the funeral, he contacted Northwest, he says, and after much frustrating dialing, reached an answering machine.


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