How to use irritable in a sentence

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• The medicine made him groggy and irritable.From the entry groggy
• She's got irritable bowel syndrome that's exacerbated by stress." ¶ "That's nasty.2008, Kate Harmon, Sorority 101, New York, N.Y.: Speak, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry mercy flush
• Inwardly, Seven smiled, glad that the predictably irritable and impatient engineer had remerged from her cocoon.2006, Heather Jarman, Evolution, page 83. From the entry remerged
• They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.1999, Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse. From the entry arduous
• He's nervous and irritable and he dreads any noise or confusion — " "Ataxophobia," Tom murmured.1975, A. l. furman, Dog Stories More, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry ataxophobia
• Today was Sunday, and Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord’s Day.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry corset
• He talks in a rather loud, blustery way and has a nervous, irritable manner.1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 1, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Knopf. From the entry blustery
• I slowed her down, but she was goey and irritable.2007, Austin Andrews, Mistress of the Runes. From the entry goey
• On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.1968, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Sidney Monas, Crime and Punishment, published 1866. From the entry captious
• The patient becomes listless, sluggish, irritable, perversed in desires, unreasonable and passes through varied stages of mental decay to ultimate insanity.1918 January, William Held, “The Epilepsy Problem”, in Iowa Homeopathic Journal, volume 11, number 8, page 13. From the entry perversed
• More distrustful and irritable than ever, in this section, this watchdog character was to be obsessed with the centauresque likeness of my four boys.2011, Gérard Gavarry, Jane Kuntz, Making a Novel, page 60. From the entry centauresque
• She was peeved and irritable, for she had spent the last hour searching for Titus, who had outgrown the fussings of her love.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry fussing
• His Boer War experience, annotated in the ribbons which he wore, had given him a touch of overlordliness, which now tuned his irritable remarks.1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 59. From the entry overlordliness
• It wouldn't do for any of the holocams to see him looking irritable, for any recordings of such a response would appear on the news broadcasts.2009 April 12, Aaron Allston, Outcast, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry demeanor
• For example, caregiver reactions may be quite different for a highly irritable, highly soothable child, as compared to an equally highly irritable child who is not soothable.2009, J. Gavin Bremner, Alan Fogel, Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, page 486. From the entry soothable

Meaning of irritable

1. adjective Capable of being irritated.
2. adjective Easily exasperated or excited.
3. adjective Responsive to stimuli.

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Questions about irritable in a sentence

How do you use irritable in a sentence?

Irritable is used as an adjective. For example: “The medicine made him groggy and irritable.”

What is a short sentence with irritable?

“an irritable old man”

What does irritable mean?

Irritable means capable of being irritated.