irritates
Example Sentences
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‘How do you come up with things to write about?” a young George Will once asked William F. Buckley Jr. That’s easy, said the National Review founder, “the world irritates me three times a week.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
Traditional oral iron supplements can help, but they often leave behind unabsorbed iron that irritates the digestive tract and triggers inflammation.
From Science Daily • Oct. 20, 2025
What irritates him is the rhetoric from those who leave, that the Hong Kong they knew has died.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
It irritates him to think of the abundant resources that a Nazi had at hand to do this sort of work.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024
It irritates me so much I taped this rule right above my doorknob.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
