It was, of course, irritating when the English post did not arrive at the usual hour.
We remember onceirritating a White Mountain hotel-keeper extremely by asking to be allowed to ride up Mount Washington alone, instead of in a party of forty.
With some amateurs this amounts to a most irritating mania.
Such injuries, unaccompanied by others, are more irritating than weakening.
But only the pale-roasted varieties should be taken, as the roasting develops the poisonous, irritating properties.
The fatal facility, of the French article becomes at last as irritating as the refrain of a popular song.
She kept her temper, even with the most irritating "lemons.
Perhaps it was a little irritating when you could have all you wanted not to know what to want.
They've been irritating him all the summer with that Erik at their head; but if once he gets downright angry, Erik may go home to his mother.
There is such a thing as a magistrate in the country," he said, with irritating calm.
His measured answers quickened Rowland's curiosity, for Miss Garland, with her own irritating half-suggestions, had only to be a subject of guarded allusion in others to become intolerably interesting.
He examined the new statue with great deference, said it was very promising, and abstained, considerately, from irritating prophecies.
It was perfectly characteristic of Roderick that, a fortnight later, he should have let his friend know that he depended upon him for society at Frascati, as freely as if no irritating topic had ever been discussed between them.
He turned away; it was irritating to look at Roderick's radiant, unscrupulous eagerness.
During his lifetime his faults were for ever chafing andirritating his acquaintances, and now that he and they are dead, these faults of his seem to be chafing and irritating people of another generation.
This assemblage, therefore, could not fail ofirritating a variety of feelings: the vanity of many was wounded by the collision.
We verily believe that oftentimes these habits originate in a burning and irritating sensation about the organs, caused by a want of thorough washing.
A young couple rushing together in their animal passion soon produce a nervous and irritating condition which ere long brings apathy, indifference, if not dislike.
At any rate, the irritating substances may be expelled from the alimentary canal before the pains will subside.
I could not listen without an irritating anxiety, that was for ever prompting me to supply a word, suggest a thought, or detect a blunder.
We all practise that haughtiness, ourselves, which, in others, is so irritating to our feelings; and for which we pretend to have so sovereign a contempt.
Breathing this atmosphere of suspicion, she shrank from irritating him by a mention of Stella, and to go without his express permission was impossible.
He had come to think of Emma almost angrily; she was a clog on him, and all the more irritatingbecause he knew that his brute strength, if only he might exert it, could sweep her into nothingness at a blow.
The oldirritating questions of impressment and blockade and the exclusion of the United States from the West Indies trade remained.
Even the burden of his debts weighed less heavily on his conscience than the irritating words with which he had induced his father-in-law to break off Wolff's betrothal to Els Ortlieb.
Herr Casper's confession did not make him dearer to the knight, but it induced him to drop the irritating tone which he had assumed, and in an altered voice he begged him not to give up his cause as lost without resistance.
The Earl had ridden over to Laxton, therefore we were alone, except for theirritating presence of Slater, the grave-faced old butler.
I glanced at her countenance, and somehow became convinced that she was still bent upon the concealment of the truth, a conviction that was both irritating and tantalising.
Therefore for yet another day was I compelled to remain there in anxious uncertainty although free from the irritating presence of the guard.
It is strange to find that a writer, pre-eminently endowed with delicacy of ear, and boasting of the complex harmonies of his style, should condescend to such an irritating defect.
Matthew Arnold must always have been slightly irritating--he was irritating even at home, and how much more irritating when, having visited this country, he chose to dwell upon the rudimentary language of General Grant!
Labor was always painful and irritating to him, and it was perhaps the irksomeness of his tasks that drove him into something not unlike madness.
Exemption from certain taxes was the chief of these, but there were others as irritating if less important.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irritating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
