exasperate
Example Sentences
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Anna May exhaled a long, exasperated breath that sounded like a punctured tire.
From Literature
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In America, the lasting image of the time is of cars and exasperated drivers waiting for hours in fuel lines.
From Barron's
She spits out the word “soccer” in the exasperated way she usually says “homework” or “math test.”
From Literature
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Documentarian Geeta Gandbhir retraces this slow-moving tragedy through the body camera footage of the exasperated officers who know that the caller, not the children, is the problem.
From Los Angeles Times
But the cyclops can’t solve the simplest of riddles and the increasingly exasperated maidens, who’ll be free once a riddle is solved, can’t get them to stop approaching the cave or from making terrible guesses.
From Los Angeles Times
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