Irritate

//ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt//

"Irritate" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The fact seemed to irritate her husband.

His incompetence began to irritate everyone.

Doesn't it irritate you to see couples making out around town?

The substance can irritate or corrode the skin, eyes, or mucous membranes.

Flashy people irritate him.

Tom purposely wore his shirt inside out just to irritate Mary.

Annoying people irritate me.

Am I right in assuming that my commentaries irritate you?

Tom is beginning to irritate me.

What kind of people irritate you?

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If thou irritatest my lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.

Thou scandalizest me and irritatest my nature as much as it possibly can be irritated.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

c. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?

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