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How to use irk in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb, noun

Irk means to irritate; annoy; bother. Example: “It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.”

Examples of irk by meaning

verbTo irritate; annoy; bother.

  • It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.
  • Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC

More sentences with irk

  • John's mischief, tying his shoelaces together, irked George at first.From the entry mischief
  • What irks is the DfT's response of stringing the industry along.2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 51. From the entry string along
  • Nothing irks me more than when people call me a Horse Whisperer.2015 July 28, Neil Davies, “Archived copy”, in There’s no such thing as a ‘horse whisperer’, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2020. From the entry horse whisperer
  • The pope’s acceptance that global warming is almost certainly man-made has irked the vocal minority with more skeptical views.2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry global warming
  • The irked actor stormed off the set.2015, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969. From the entry irked
  • Nothing irks me more than entitled people.2011, Phil Torcivia, What a Nice Guy. From the entry entitled
  • This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 6, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 86. From the entry head rag
  • YOUNG COLLEGE MAN, travelled, slightly peeved and irked, not disenchanted, would relish hearing from bright young things with gay outlook, brilliant notions.1952 January 14, “The Press: Strictly Personal”, in Time, retrieved 22 Aug 2014. From the entry bright young thing
  • Thing that’s been irking me lately: when people who are vicious tradlarpers in public admit to you privately they have a weird fetish or favorite Onlyfans girls.2021 August 27, @Chat_Mort, Twitter, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2022. From the entry tradlarper
  • Okay, now lets say you said something to someone that irked him in some way — or else someone else said something irksome and jerksome to you.1998, Karen Salmansohn, Whip your Career into Submission. From the entry jerksome
  • Like a levite’s robe of plain linen the faded worn soutane draped the kneeling figure of one whom the canonicals or the bellbordered ephod would irk and trouble.1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC. From the entry ephod

Meaning of irk

  1. verb To irritate; annoy; bother.
  2. noun An annoyance.

Full definition of irk

Questions about irk in a sentence

How do you use irk in a sentence?
Irk is used as a verb and noun. For example: “It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.”
What is a short sentence with irk?
“Nothing irks me more than entitled people.”
What does irk mean?
Irk means to irritate; annoy; bother.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: irk (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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