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Example sentences for "annoy"

Lexicographically close words:
announcement; announcements; announcer; announces; announcing; annoyance; annoyances; annoyed; annoying; annoyingly
  1. But does it annoy you,—does it vex you to hear me speak of him?

  2. I don't want to annoy her: the law isn't at loggerheads with her—and so she's nothing to fear.

  3. Mr. Rainford—I wouldn't do any thing to annoy you for the world.

  4. That was all said to irritate me, you know, Captain Sparks; and most likely that vixen Charlotte made Sir Christopher write the letter just to annoy me.

  5. I don't want to annoy you, ma'am," returned Dykes.

  6. If a galley could also be taken to Ternate, it would greatly annoy the Spaniards.

  7. He will always have it in his power to annoy me," says she quickly.

  8. I do not like them; that is the only way you can annoy me now.

  9. Your suspicions begin to annoy me, Rolles," said the older man.

  10. It will annoy your father, but one can't please everybody.

  11. But suppose you really were an animal altogether, it wouldn't annoy you at all.

  12. When an enchanter wants to annoy you he generally turns you into an animal of some kind.

  13. Before we left Kingston a batch of letters was received, some for each of us, and I did not attempt to annoy Marjorie this time by prying into her correspondence.

  14. Miss May's coolness was not of a kind to annoy me seriously, and much better than the opposite extreme would have been.

  15. You don't think I would let him annoy you, when you were under my protection.

  16. My old employer would use every means to annoy me if he discovered where I am going.

  17. It would probably annoy her if she thought I was regardin' her as an object of curiosity,' said he.

  18. Mother and son became maudlin in their--not cups, but jug; but Davy had the sense to imbibe more cautiously, a fact which seemed to annoy the nervous Bill.

  19. If anything happens--if the boys annoy you, or any one attempts to enter the old house, telephone to the station or summon the officer at the corner.

  20. I only considered it wrong, or at all events ill judged, to annoy Veronica, in regard to them, or to trouble her in any way about the means by which I might effect an entrance into its walls.

  21. Guy, I don't want to annoy you, but is it really necessary that your poems should appear without your name?

  22. How she hoped, too, that Richard had not brought home from India a present that would annoy Margaret.

  23. Indeed, all I wonder at is, that your lordship does not use the power you have to annoy him!

  24. An attempt was made to annoy them with our guns, but in consequence of their smallness, being but light field-pieces, our shots were attended with very little effect.

  25. Because it appears to me folly to disturb or annoy a person who has given me no offence; and were I to put him into the hands of the police, I might possibly find reason to repent having acted so.

  26. Such slanders ought not to annoy you: in the days of madame de Pompadour, the same thing was done.

  27. Now listen: I solemnly swear that if you worry and annoy me by making me play various mean and odious parts in this comedy of yours,--I swear to you that I will throw up the whole business and put an end to it in a moment.

  28. Nothing used to annoy Mifflin more than to have someone come in and ask for copies of these works.

  29. Perhaps she would be annoyed if I went to see her, and it is wrong to annoy those whom we love.

  30. In every previous fight I had something to annoy me before starting; I saw red before a blow was given or taken.

  31. I made it a point never to annoy or tease them.

  32. Johnny and Jenny enjoyed playing with people, with any one who did not annoy them.

  33. Meantime the host of the Inn, continued to annoy the men with his wit.

  34. A few hours will bear me to my men, assured that no enemy can annoy me in the rear; and before me is the hungry skeleton of a wandering king.

  35. However ignorant the then inhabitants of the earth were, the Lord knew that they could not annoy him by the erection of a tower to any height they might be inclined to raise it.

  36. To be sure, they were not turned out naked; the very ground was cursed for their bad conduct, and thorns and thistles would spring up to annoy them.

  37. You seem to think that I hold my tongue out of sheer eccentricity, just to annoy you.

  38. She thought he knew better than she whether he needed anything or not, and that it would be wiser not to annoy him with questions.

  39. There was no reason why this very pleasant and natural remark should annoy his hearer, but it did.

  40. You see, the girls bobbing up and down annoy him, and it is beastly to see people bolting their food in curl-papers.

  41. And moreover, my dear, I have a little plan in my head that will tend to show him up even better, in case he may ever try to annoy us.

  42. Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy The Atheist crew, but with redoubl'd blow 370 Ariel and Arioc, and the violence Of Ramiel scorcht and blasted overthrew.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annoy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afflict; aggravate; amplify; anger; annoy; arouse; augment; awake; awaken; badger; bait; beleaguer; beset; blistering; bother; bristle; bug; chafe; deepen; deteriorate; devil; discomfit; discompose; displease; distress; disturb; dog; dun; embitter; enhance; enlarge; enrage; exasperate; excite; exercise; fan; fatigue; faze; fire; foment; frenzy; fret; gall; get; gnaw; grate; gripe; harass; heat; heckle; heighten; hound; huff; impassion; incense; incite; inconvenience; increase; inflame; infuriate; intensify; irritate; kindle; madden; magnify; molest; move; nag; needle; nerve; nettle; offend; persecute; pester; pick; pique; plague; pother; prod; provoke; rankle; rasp; ride; rile; rouse; rub; ruffle; sharpen; sour; spite; stir; tantalize; taunt; tease; tire; torment; trouble; try; vex; wake; warm; worry; worsen