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How to use annoying in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Annoying means causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious. Example: “Having flies in your bedroom when you're trying to sleep is really annoying.”

Examples of annoying by meaning

adjectiveCausing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

  • Having flies in your bedroom when you're trying to sleep is really annoying.

More sentences with annoying

  • Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.From the entry all
  • The distance between the lowest and next gear on my bicycle is annoying.From the entry distance
  • I told him to can it, 'cause he was getting to be annoying.From the entry can it
  • "It is what it is" was one of his more annoying lines.From the entry line
  • He has strong political views, and an annoying habit of proselytizing at parties.From the entry proselytize
  • I find most people annoying — present company excepted, of course!From the entry except
  • I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.From the entry miniature
  • There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection.From the entry crackle
  • Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them.From the entry whinge
  • My friend's mobile keeps getting bluejacked - it's really quite annoying.From the entry bluejack
  • Noticeably, what had been merely annoying to her was becoming infuriating.From the entry noticeably
  • He found his eyelid flutters annoying enough to see a doctor about them.From the entry flutter
  • A lot of people find the flutter of film to be an annoying distraction.From the entry flutter
  • There is nothing more annoying than a rogue cycler ignoring the other road users.From the entry cycler
  • She found the constant mispronunciation of her name very annoying.From the entry mispronunciation
  • His humor can be annoying but is harmless.From the entry harmless
  • That teacher’s old-school methods aren’t effective. They’re just annoying.From the entry old school
  • The comments section is now filled with annoying blegs.From the entry blegs
  • I wish that popular afternoon show would let us cover some of their commercials – their national stuff can be so annoying.From the entry cover
  • When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.From the entry pile
  • You could tell that the video and the audio hadn't been synced up properly, so watching the movie was kind of annoying.From the entry sync up
  • But just when you've got a lot of information, that can be annoying.2025, Simone Janson, “Better Choice - 10 Tips: Properly informing instead of brooding!”, in Yes, No, Maybe? What to Do When You Don’t Know…. From the entry nerve
  • I was the Lisa Simpson of the office—informed, well-meaning, but, I'm sure, really annoying.2024, Tara Schuster, Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way, Random House…. From the entry Lisa Simpson
  • Google has made some very annoying changes to GBooks, which they shouldn't have done.2023 November 16, @mikecane, Twitter. From the entry GBooks
  • Blocking is an annoying effect in image compression using JPEG especially at low bit-rates.2017, Sekine Asadi Amiri, Hamid Hassanpour, Image compression using JPEG with reduced blocking effects via adaptive down-sampling and…. From the entry blocking
  • This is especially annoying when the correction has no bearing on the actual conversation.2015 March 25, “The Recurse Center User's Manual”, in Recurse Center, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2015. From the entry well actually
  • It’s all rather annoying, especially with friends or when you’ve found a group well-matched Splatooners.2015 June 8, Anthony Pelone, “Op-Ed: Three Ways to Make Splatoon Better”, in Nintendojo, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2015. From the entry Splatooner
  • He is a good man, but his incessive worrying is a bit annoying.2013, Kathleen Clare, The Anthology Of Porthos, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry incessive
  • Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite.2011, Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath, page 49. From the entry cleg
  • Annabelle came skipping out of the house with an air of self-congratulatory joy that was instantly annoying.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry self-congratulatory
  • If you repeated those over and over, it'd be nothing but annoying!2008, Buster Fayte, The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit, →ISBN. From the entry oneshot
  • Republicans robo-called Americans during their dinner and evening hours, blaming the annoying calls on Democrats.2007, Jackson Thoreau, Born to Cheat: How Bush, Cheney, Rove & Co. Broke the Rules—from the Sandlot to the White House, page 197. From the entry robocall
  • The other day a guy ordered a poor man’s latte in a particularly annoying way.2007 May 7, Felicity Shoulders, “POOR man's latte?”, in Faerye.net. From the entry poor man's latte
  • There's nothing more annoying than taking a great picture, only to find that the horizon isn't straight.2004, Chris Weston, 500 Digital Photography Hints, Tips, and Techniques. From the entry straight
  • While these are acceptable in small doses, too much use is spamming and just plain annoying.2003 May 9, Lu Hong, “The Big, Bad, Rules of #simrtk”, in Simulated RTK, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2007. From the entry o rly
  • Want to spend hours just chatting with and annoying other EverQuesters?2003 January, Shane Bettenhausen, “EverQuest Online Adventures”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 162, page 86. From the entry EverQuester
  • Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “Mad-Eye Moody”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London…. From the entry predict
  • Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society.2025 August 2, @ulxma, X. From the entry chest
  • This the same girl that's "wasted" of a white claw dam her voice annoying (sic). - Yeah, legiterally.2020 November 17, Jack Patrick Douglass, End my suffering (YOUR GRAMMAR SUCKS #127). From the entry legiterally

Meaning of annoying

  1. adjective Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
  2. noun That which annoys; an annoyance.

Full definition of annoying

Questions about annoying in a sentence

How do you use annoying in a sentence?
Annoying is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Having flies in your bedroom when you're trying to sleep is really annoying.”
What is a short sentence with annoying?
“His humor can be annoying but is harmless.”
What does annoying mean?
Annoying means causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: annoying (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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