Example sentences for: irritating

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

  • When played live it has a haunting melody, but taverna owners do have the irritating habit of playing it at high decibels through overloaded speakers.

  • Something in Disney World is irritating both Arabs and Israelis.

  • A Xanthosoma species has been tentatively identified in an Aztec herbal [ 103 ] . A Xanthosoma species called "chou poivre" was rubbed on the body by the Caribs in Dominica as a charm before going to war [ 103 ] . Another species called "chou froidure" was used as an infusion for chills [ 103 ] . Xanthosoma auriculatum leaf sap is used in Brazil for severe wounds and skin diseases [ 103 ] . Xanthosoma brasiliense and Xanthosoma undipes probably contain irritating compounds that irritate mucous membranes [ 138 129 ] . Xanthosoma brasiliense belongs to the Araceae family, which generally contain glycoflavones, flavonols and proanthocyanidins.

  • Every actress would like to play the most legendary Nora but, for much of the first act, Janet McTeer seems to want to play the most irritating.

  • Nor were insects ignored: the habitually irritating were either Zampaglione (the Calabrian word for mosquito), or Mosca (fly), Moscone (blue-bottle fly), or some variant (including Mussolini , which, as we have seen, could be a diminutive of Giacomo ).


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