ANNOYING in a Sentence

Learn ANNOYING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
214 example sentences for ANNOYING, such as:
1. This was very annoying to Levin.
2. There was one annoying incident.
3. He swatted a fly that was annoying him.
4. You must have found my attitude annoying.
5. It would have been unacceptable and annoying.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ANNOYING
annoying
 a.  causing irritation or annoyance
 n.  the act of troubling or annoying someone
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  Suellen was an annoying sister with her whining and selfishness, and had it not been for Ellen's restraining hand, Scarlett would frequently have boxed her ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  It was annoying the way Melly always misconstrued her motives--but perhaps that was far preferable to having her suspect the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  He clawed at them absently and cleared his throat in an annoying way before he spoke.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  It was annoying that Melanie always seemed to grasp more of situations than she herself did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  He laughed pleasedly, the tittery cackling laugh which she always found so annoying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  He coughed nervously and waved his hands and repeated his annoying remark about her sweet pretty little head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  And finally, the Yankees ceased annoying them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  He looked as though he understood her rudeness and that was annoying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  But since she had been forced to drive alone, there had been any number of annoying, maddening incidents.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  It's always annoying to the godly when the ungodly flourish like the green bay tree.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  There was one annoying incident.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  It would have been unacceptable and annoying.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
13  Her eyelids looked heavy and her face was red and swollen; he saw that he was annoying her, that she only wanted him to go away.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
14  Krempe had now commenced an eulogy on himself, which happily turned the conversation from a subject that was so annoying to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  This was very annoying to Levin.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  He's annoying to argue with because he keeps shifting his ground.
2  You must have found my attitude annoying.
3  It's annoying that we can't travel until Thursday, but the upside is that the fare's cheaper then.
4  I wish she would stop annoying us and push off.
5  It's annoying that the chimneys of those plants in the city eject a lot of smoke every day.
6  He swatted a fly that was annoying him.
7  He's never more annoying than when he's trying to help.
8  It's so annoying having to drag out the sewing machine every time I want to make a dress.
9  It's annoying, but I don't think I'll go to the trouble of making an official complaint.
10  Jane's always annoying her and she takes it out on me sometimes.
11  Kent found entomology the most annoying part of his biology course; studying insects bugged him.
12  Like a gadfly, he irritated all the guests at the hotel; within forty-eight hours, everyone regarded him as an annoying busybody.
13  Please tell us how to get rid of the annoying windows alert balloons.
14  A dog that barks constantly can be a source of annoyance to the neighbours.
15  There are rumblings of annoyance throughout the workforce.