Example Sentences

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Why It Irks Me: Fairly or not, impactful oozes with corporatese; it sounds birthed of branded marketing synergy and strategizing PowerPoints.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015

Why It Irks Me: I don’t have any problem when things famous people tweet, like Kanye’s Kim Kardashian photos or Jeb Bush’s new ¡campaign logo!, make news.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015

Why It Irks Me: Some call it “hyphenitis,” but what’s really inflamed is my passion!

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015

Why It Irks Me: We have an adjective for woman—it’s female.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee," though genuine Browning, is not distinctively and unmistakably his, like "Irks care the crop-full bird?

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)