IRASCIBLE in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for IRASCIBLE, such as:
1. That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate.
2. He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.
3. He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.
4. Miss Minchin's irascible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.
5. They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility.
2. He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.
3. He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.
4. Miss Minchin's irascible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.
5. They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility.
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Meanings and Examples of IRASCIBLE
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irascible
a. quickly aroused to anger
a. characterized by anger
Classic Sentence:
1 This did not suit Jo at all, but she accepted the place since nothing better appeared and, to every one's surprise, got on remarkably well with her irascible relative.
2 That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate.
3 The threat sounded awful, but did not alarm Jo, for she knew the irascible old gentleman would never lift a finger against his grandson, whatever he might say to the contrary.
4 Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
5 He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.
6 Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the most formidable of combatants.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
7 He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
8 Not one conversation with Sviazhsky, though he had said a great deal that was clever, had interested Levin; but the conclusions of the irascible landowner required consideration.
9 'It had been left to her, unconditionally, by her first husband,' Mr. Murdstone began, when my aunt caught him up with the greatest irascibility and impatience.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
10 But Vronsky was startled and annoyed by the nervous irascibility with which Golenishtchev talked of the subject that engrossed him.
11 They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility.
12 Now, as a half-smile was sufficient to awaken the irascibility of the young man, the effect produced upon him by this vociferous mirth may be easily imagined.
Example Sentence:
1 Miss Minchin's irascible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.