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How to use ire in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun, verb

Ire means iron. Example: “Twelve-foot snow drifts still cover windows.¶ Buffalo’s slow, haphazard plowing and response has also drawn the ire of county leaders.”

Examples of ire by meaning

nounGreat anger; wrath; keen resentment.

  • to raise the ire of someone
  • Twelve-foot snow drifts still cover windows.¶ Buffalo’s slow, haphazard plowing and response has also drawn the ire of county leaders.2022 December 27, Brianna Sacks, “Buffalo blizzard fuels racial and class divides in polarized city”, in The Washington Post, archived from...

verbTo anger, to irritate.

  • Caldwell, to ire me just a little bit.1915, Dr. Duncan Eve of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in the Southern Medical Journal, volume 4, page 279
  • This was Mary Farley who testified that at the time the research interviewer reached her home she was entertaining company and that she was “ired” by the interruption.1968, “H. P. Wasson and Company”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, volume 170, page 298
  • Everyone else deserves their food; it ires me to no end—couldn't write “pissed off,” too juvenile—to hear other girls say, “I shouldn't be eating this.” Shut up, I want to say, you're fucking gorgeous.2001 August 1, Xan Nowakowski, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 104

More sentences with ire

  • Even before Zuckerberg doubled down on it Wednesday, the increasing TikTokification of Instagram was stirring users’ ire.2022 July 27, Brian Contreras, “Facebook is in trouble. Its escape plan: Turn into TikTok”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry tiktokification
  • The focus of Simpson’s ire was a spunky, young upstart, the plucky 39-year-old Chase Utley.2019, Mark Barry, BP staff, “Los Angeles Dodgers”, in Patrick Dubuque, Aaron Gleeman, Bret Sayre, editors, Baseball Prospectus 2019: The…. From the entry old man yelling at cloud
  • The degree to which his "pedanticness" reaches is a reliable measurement of his ire.2015, Dane Mc Caslin, A Bird in the Hand, →ISBN. From the entry pedanticness
  • He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire.2014 July 5, “Freedom fighter”, in The Economist, volume 412, number 8894, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023. From the entry free
  • Take out your ire on the unneighborly generators of noises that unsoothe the nerves.1952, Gayelord Hauser, Be Happier, Be Healthier, page 142. From the entry unsoothe
  • The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire, laid low their towers and houses frail.1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit. From the entry lay low
  • If Cal had needed any more to rouse his ire, this fact was enough.1934, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Code of the West, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, published 1962, →OCLC, page 36. From the entry rouse
  • One author who has drawn the ire of parents and librarians in particular is Barbara Park, whose heroine 'Junie B.2018, Ralf Thiede, Children's Books, Brain Development, and Language Acquisition, Taylor & Francis. From the entry Amelia Bedelia
  • Both minister and session were 'highly offended that he should have so far misregarded his pastor and provoked him to ire.'2002, Margo Todd, The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland. From the entry misregard
  • This peculiar ire against Petr Pithart was in retaliation to his highly conciliatory television speech on 9 November.2001, Abby Innes, Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye, New Haven, C.N.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry Czechoslovakist
  • The commission approved the proposal Thursday, delighting transit activists and drawing the ire of motorists who worry about increased congestion and competition for parking.2022 March 28, Rachel Swan, “Meet the Bay Area mayor who wants to persuade you to get rid of your car”, in San Francisco Chronicle…. From the entry car brain
  • To put it bluntly – without wanting to attract the ire of mental-health charities – he was a div who went schizo.2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 145. From the entry div
  • The brand, in its collaboration with Target, provoked ire—proving that, in the right circumstances, even sundresses can be part of the culture wars.2015 April 22, Megan Garber, “Why Do People Hate Lilly Pulitzer?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sundress
  • A month ago, however, two pioneering heart surgeons gave reason for optimism that not all feuders carry their ire to the grave.2007 December 9, Abby Goodnough, “No, We Don't Want to Kiss and Make Up”, in New York Times. From the entry feuder
  • Somewhat mischievously I might suggest that their ire will be in direct ratio to the amount of momishness that is in them.1946, Edward Adam Strecker, Their Mothers' Sons. From the entry momishness
  • Souls have grown seers, and thought outbrings The mournful many-sidedness of things With foes as friends, enfeebling ires And fury-fires by gaingiving!1914, Louis Freeland Post, Alice Thacher Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A journal of democracy: Volume 17. From the entry outbring
  • To my well-pleaded plaint on breach of faith Concerning Malta, as at Amiens pledged, Has lighted up anew such brands of ire As may bescorch the world.2007, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts. From the entry bescorch
  • British subjects in Éire could not vote, hold public office, or work in the government service of Éire, whereas Éire citizens in Britain could do all of these.1989, Thomas E. Hachey; Joseph M. Hernon, Jr.; Lawrence J. McCaffrey, “The de Valera Era, 1932–1959: Continuity and Change in Irish Life”…. From the entry Éire
  • The target of his ire are clearly groups like Norm UK, which since its inception five years ago, has proved to be a thorn in the flesh of the pro-circumcisionists.2000, Q News: The Muslim Magazine, numbers 315-326, page 12. From the entry pro-circumcisionist

Meaning of ire

  1. noun Iron.
  2. noun Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
  3. verb To anger, to irritate.

Full definition of ire

Questions about ire in a sentence

How do you use ire in a sentence?
Ire is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Twelve-foot snow drifts still cover windows.¶ Buffalo’s slow, haphazard plowing and response has also drawn the ire of county leaders.”
What is a short sentence with ire?
“to raise the ire of someone”
What does ire mean?
Ire means iron.

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