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How to use annoyance in a sentence

38 example sentences · noun

Annoyance means that which annoys. Example: “Having to wait 45 minutes for the bus is a real annoyance, but it's the only way to get to work.”

Examples of annoyance by meaning

nounThat which annoys.

  • Having to wait 45 minutes for the bus is a real annoyance, but it's the only way to get to work.

nounThe psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

  • feeling mild annoyance
  • So the annoyance is nothing new.’2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, page 273

More sentences with annoyance

  • The tennis player thocked her racquet on the ground in annoyance.From the entry thock
  • Instead, it is defensive and clearly bristles with annoyance when someone merely states the facts.2021 May 5, Barry Doe, “The Independent has a better grasp than GWR's spokesman”, in RAIL, number 930, page 58. From the entry bristle
  • Twitter gives you two options for dealing with this kind of annoyance.2013, Shelly Palmer, Digital Wisdom: Thought Leadership for a Connected World, page 32. From the entry pornbot
  • Then, to her annoyance, the emotional, nonaloof, nonproper woman seized her vocal cords.2011, Leslie Parrish, Cold Touch: Extrasensory Agents. From the entry nonaloof
  • Obama’s flashes of annoyance — they all doubted that those moments would be deal-breakers, either.2008 April 18, Patrick Healy, “Superdelegates Unswayed by Clinton’s Attacks”, in New York Times. From the entry unfavorability
  • One annoyance, or maybe it’s one of those “it’s-not-a-bug-it’s-a-feature” situations, is the gearshift.1999 September, “Long-term Test Cars”, in Popular Mechanics, New York City. From the entry it's not a bug, it's a feature
  • Here Slob interrupts, to Onion-hawker’s annoyance, to insist that ‘forebears’ should be included as well.1991, Carol Kidwell, Pontano: Poet & Prime Minister, Duckworth, →ISBN, page 283. From the entry anterity
  • I need to loosen up and party down.” He reached for his vodka-dogmilk martini with visible annoyance.1989 summer, D. Krolz-6, “Green Oatmeal Electro-Fuck on Level Six”, in Darby [i.e., Deborah Romeo], editor, Ben Is Dead, number 5…. From the entry dogmilk
  • Copling glanced at the heading and signature, then read the contents and frowned annoyance.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry frown
  • An occasional burned-out bearing and some annoyance from lint and dirt were the chief faults which developed.1919 June 24, “From the Old to the New”, in Electrical World, volume 73, number 24, New York, New York, page 1254. From the entry heavy duty
  • The spewing or moulding of upper leather is something that causes considerable annoyance.1907, Shoe Retailer and Boots and Shoes Weekly, volume 63, page 65. From the entry spew
  • Played footy in ours many times and climbed over many walls to recover the ball to the annoyance of neighbours !2017 September 3, Roy Hardy, Twitter, retrieved 02 Nov 2017. From the entry ennog
  • Some consider this sort of thing to be an annoyance or anti-feature, but I consider it a good design.2015, Hal Fulton, André Arko, The Ruby Way […] , Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page xl. From the entry anti-feature
  • First world problems are not legitimate problems, but the minuscule annoyances that occur on a day-to-day basis in well-off, developed countries.2012 February 13, “The ‘Top 100 First World Problems’ According to Scooter Magruder (Video)”, in Huffington Post, archived from the…. From the entry first world problem
  • Paul muttered, shaking his head in annoyance.2012, Ina Linger, Three-Night-Stand: Love is Simple. From the entry double uncle
  • Snow was already pivoting, growling his annoyance, nail-bat swinging.2010, Kelly Meding, As Lie the Dead. From the entry nail bat
  • “Cell yell” results, much to the annoyance of anyone nearby.2010, Mary Ellen Guffey, Essentials of Business Communication, South-Western Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 316. From the entry cell yell
  • Meanwhile, to Samsonov’s annoyance, Colonel Knox had arrived in Ostrolenka.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry ex officio
  • He expressed annoyance at the change of plan.1949, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in The Mating Season, page 5. From the entry coolness
  • It'll make you cheer loudly or roar with annoyance.1935, The American Magazine, page 66. From the entry fantods
  • Her annoyance sharpened to anger when, ending the inspection at her own pew, she found it occupied by a stranger.1935, Margaret Widdemer, “Guidance”, in Dorothy Scarborough, editor, Selected Short Stories of Today, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart…. From the entry béreted
  • A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance.1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128. From the entry gullery
  • Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?2007 July 8, Kara Jesella, “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”, in New York Times. From the entry shusher
  • The lesson, I guess, is that when it comes to annoyance, the annoyee is often just as much the problem as the annoyer.2007 August 24, John Paul Newport, “The most annoying species you can play with”, in mint. From the entry annoyee
  • He rejected the simile with annoyance.1956, Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. From the entry King Charles' head
  • Back at the shanty, Bradly's compunction for bellowing at Podson was a good deal relieved by Podson's gruntulous annoyance at being bellowed at.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 93. From the entry gruntulous
  • Vulp emitted a low growl of annoyance when he realised that for this season at least the island would yield no savoury meal of duckflesh.1935 June 27, F. G. Turnbull, “Road to the Isle: Short Story”, in Daily Herald, number 6042, London, →OCLC, page 16, columns 2–3. From the entry duckflesh
  • He really wished to get up to avoid the annoyance of being forced up, but the wish, of course, narcoticised the effort.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 8. From the entry narcoticize
  • I pushed it away – I'd often muttered, 'Oh, get in the sea,' to myself in annoyance at him, but that was definitely not what I'd meant.2023, Sophie Ranald, Not in a Million Years. From the entry get in the sea
  • Aaron's use of Black vernacular was a constant source of humor and annoyance for Black and NBPOC staff, and even for the white native San Franciscans.2019, Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco, Duke University Press, →ISBN. From the entry NBPOC
  • As understandable as his annoyance about this malign misuse of his sketch may be, both ways of interpreting his caricature remain open, one being undeniably germanophobic.2006, Werner Delanoy, Laurenz Volkmann, Cultural Studies in the EFL Classroom, page 162. From the entry germanophobic
  • Aunt Samantha had shown annoyance at this by puffing her nostrils and issuing a sort of whinny-like protest which made her seem all the more a horseface.2004, Marilyn Ross, Cellars of the Dead, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry horseface
  • In fact it would be fair to say that he had reached a level of annoyance the like of which had never been seen in the Universe.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 93. From the entry like
  • The dim, gas-lit platform there is not graced with a traffic stop, much to the annoyance of Rotherham passengers who must retrace their steps by road from Sheffield.1959 March, D. Bertram, “An old friend - the 9.7”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141. From the entry gas-lit
  • In an interview with Flying magazine, Heberding commented that her pet annoyance was "the reluctance of people generally to accept a woman whether as a pilot or a preflight inspector."1991, Deborah G. Douglas, United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985, page 9. From the entry pet

Meaning of annoyance

  1. noun That which annoys.
  2. noun An act or instance of annoying.
  3. noun The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

Full definition of annoyance

Questions about annoyance in a sentence

How do you use annoyance in a sentence?
Annoyance is used as a noun. For example: “Having to wait 45 minutes for the bus is a real annoyance, but it's the only way to get to work.”
What is a short sentence with annoyance?
“feeling mild annoyance”
What does annoyance mean?
Annoyance means that which annoys.

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