exasperate
Example Sentences
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The issues exasperate many of the remaining businesses.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024
However, quite how the hosts did not manage to win will mystify and exasperate the new man at the helm.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2022
The series can tend toward the twee, and the characters can exasperate.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
Simpson’s funny and moving tale is more successful, though its ambling pace and episodic structure may exasperate lovers of tight narrative.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022
Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the colour rose into her cheeks, and she said:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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