Example sentences for: vexed

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

  • Although L has, in addition to the names, abbreviations, and only a few pages of miscellaneous materials—Handbook of Style, Ten Vexed points in English grammar—and some tables of moneys, weights and measures, etc., W has short sections on Foreign Words and Phrases (most of which are dispensable), Signs and Symbols, and Style, as well as one of those interminably boring listings of Colleges and Universities that clutter up most American college dictionaries.

  • Truth be told, the anti-conglomerate conglomerate seems less vexed by conglomerate meddling in journalism--the Los Angeles Times ' Staples Center scandal, Time 's decision to put Pokémon (a Warner Bros. release) on its cover, and Rupert Murdoch's capitulation to the Chinese, who wanted the BBC off his satellite--than by the ultra-evil the media conglomerates might do in the future.

  • All poor Clinton was doing was trying to "struggle with the gummy, vexed exigencies of the merely human."

  • Members of the council, including--in a rare show of unity--the leaders of all four Jewish seminaries, are particularly vexed by the Baptists' use of tallis and yarmulke in a Christian service.

  • And then sometimes people get so vexed, they want to call their congressman and say, 'pass a law to stop all this stuff.


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