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Example sentences for "exasperation"

Lexicographically close words:
exasperate; exasperated; exasperates; exasperating; exasperatingly; exasperations; excavate; excavated; excavates; excavating
  1. But there are also expressions of hatred and exasperation which we feel belong to another class of society.

  2. Meanwhile the struggle raged on with frightful exasperation on both sides.

  3. I don't know what it means," he said, with a mixture of exasperation and curiosity.

  4. Well, I'd rather be less interested and more comfortable," said Patty, with a trace of exasperation in her voice.

  5. Exasperation rather with the general nature of things than with Delia.

  6. An energetic leading article breathed the exasperation of the public, and pointed out the spread of the campaign of violence.

  7. Pretty well tied up," thought Winnington, marvelling at the strength of feeling, the final exasperation of a dying man, which the will betrayed.

  8. In exasperation at the invasion of these time-honoured privileges, they denounced as sacrilege the statutes which had been required to restrain them.

  9. You are shamelessly lazy and imbecile yourself," said the doctor, with that faculty for exasperation which made him so generally beloved.

  10. In the early days of her Costaguana life, the little lady used to clench her hands with exasperation at not being able to take the public affairs of the country as seriously as the incidental atrocity of methods deserved.

  11. Thousands of men peaceably disposed, and if left alone perfectly satisfied with their position as British subjects, are being drawn into disaffection, and there is a corresponding exasperation upon the part of the British.

  12. The inevitable siege paper, 'The Ladysmith Lyre,' appeared, and did something to relieve the monotony by the exasperation of its jokes.

  13. The congress had met at Rastadt in order to conclude peace, but so far the negotiations had produced nothing but exasperation and a strong probability of ultimate war.

  14. And the rattling of the windows, the loud noise of the stones glancing off on the walls, increased the rage and exasperation of the people.

  15. In their exasperation they looked beyond the savages to their employers.

  16. At the sailing of the ships there was a feeling of exasperation throughout the camp.

  17. It was under gloomy auspices, a divided cabinet, an increasing exasperation of parties, a suspicion of monarchial tendencies, and a threatened abatement of popularity, that Washington entered upon his second term of presidency.

  18. There was no contact anywhere between them, and he was a slow exasperation to her.

  19. The impolicy of the government in affixing his name to the pillory merely served to increase the exasperation of the Catholics.

  20. Footnote 2: The exasperation of the people had risen to the utmost pitch.

  21. There comes a feeling of impotent exasperation to me when I realise how many white men there are who speak of them continually with the utmost contempt and see them dwindle with entire complacency.

  22. She was startled at this abrupt emergence of the name which secretly filled her mind and was aware with exasperation that she was blushing.

  23. From the sincere anxiety in his voice, Laura surmised at once that Gerty's exasperation had preceded by some hours her cooler judgment.

  24. This kiss, wrenched from him at the moment he felt himself strongest, obliterating useless exasperation and futile combat, ended his resistance.

  25. But if the tones of exasperation jarred on Romola, there was often another member of Fra Girolamo's audience to whom they were the only thrilling tones, like the vibration of deep bass notes to the deaf.

  26. Tito, it would not be useless for us to speak openly," said Romola, with the sort of exasperation that comes from using living muscle against some lifeless insurmountable resistance.

  27. As the exasperation against Tiberius found its expression in the painting of Germanicus in fine colours, so did the exasperation against Nero in the picture of Corbulo.

  28. The other party satisfied that they were acting in self-defense felt fully justified in assaulting them, and so each goaded the other on from one degree of exasperation to another.

  29. But there were two causes of vexation and exasperation which the people were in no good mood to bear.

  30. To us by an exasperation which is entirely our own fault, to him by deceiving him as to his true position.

  31. It is a gesture of mere exasperation and not a final gesture at that.

  32. He had taken her at her word; but being a woman, the desire to talk everything out grew during those three long stormy days to an agony of exasperation which was almost worse to bear at the moment than the loss of Godfrey himself.

  33. Then Miss Ethel chanced to notice Caroline's blouse, which was made from her own summer dress of twenty years ago, and an irrepressible wave of hurt exasperation swept over her, rousing her to active resentment.

  34. She had hardly felt the pressure, short, sharp with all the exasperation of his worship, before it was gone.

  35. Robbie had been scrambling over them, scratching, whining, licking their hands and cheeks in an exasperation of shut-out pity.

  36. He took his seat in such a state of exasperation that he longed to exclaim: "This is really too much!

  37. Jean had come close up to him, pale, and his voice quivering with exasperation at this irony levelled at the woman he loved and had chosen.

  38. Probably then you will dance the war-dance of exasperation on its dismembered remains.

  39. Mr. Caspar Whitney describes in exasperation his experience with the Indians of the Far North-West.

  40. Increased exasperation of Kritias and the majority of the Thirty against TheramenĂªs.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exasperation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.