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: We have an adjective for woman—it’s female.

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: As much as I like to think of my books as my friends, that’s not what Simon and Garfunkel meant when they sang about being protected by them.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015

Many of his lines are rather gritty: Irks care the crop-full bird?

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph