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Example sentences for: vexed

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Vexed by discord, the founding families find a convenient scapegoat in a colony of single women that springs up at a ruined Catholic home for Indian girls 15 miles away.
And, says the Times , citing U.S. intelligence, drug flights into Mexico ceased in late 1995, shortly that is, after the start of the vexed program--with smugglers putting their loads on container ships instead.
The Vatican's new, revised guide to exorcism, "De Exorcismis et Supplicantionibus Quibusdam," lists these three warning signs but cautions that exorcists "must not consider people to be vexed by demons who are suffering from some psychic illness."
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 both report a White House lawyer's comment that the vexed ads were carefully previewed by lawyers.