Example sentences for: irked

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

  • They are also irked by U.S. military support for Taiwan--especially the U.S. plan to deploy a Theater Missile Defense for Taiwan in the next few years.

  • USAT 's front reports that the Supreme Court, irked about last spring's tell-all book by an ex-clerk about the Court's inner workings, has told this term's clerks that the Supremes' secrets are to be kept "forever."

  • Still, Mailer was irked.

  • Environmental and consumer groups are irked by the bills' concessions to oil, gas, and nuclear utilities, though some, er, tree-huggers are happy about a provision allowing timber companies to write off the replanting costs.

  • The Post lead says some House Democratic staffers are worried that a pro-Clinton ad campaign would siphon off money needed by House candidates, and that House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt is already "irked" at White House officials for unleashing James Carville's particularly aggressive anti-Starr, anti-Gingrich defense of Clinton last Sunday.


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