Sentence examples for exasperated effort from inspiring English sources

And she was aware of someone else moving around nearby, rattling the spiky, dark-green leaves, grunting with puzzled and exasperated effort: at any moment they might come face to face.

Probably that accounted for the grunting and the exasperated efforts.

Dalí's exasperated efforts to resist Gardner's agenda is one of the story's more amusing subplots.

An accompanying commentary, sounding distinctly exasperated, pointed out that efforts to restrain overtesting and overtreatment have continued for decades.

For those involved in the game, the window functions differently, helping agents get their payday and players their dream moves, assisting exasperated chairmen and managers in their efforts to move bad blood off the books.

And even though I was raised under the ruthlessly considerate thumb of a Japanese mother, just a few rounds of witnessing this process had me exasperated - imagine how much time and effort the woman would save if she didn't adhere to these ingrained cultural expectations.

The country was showing increasing signs of its discontent, and Wolsey's efforts to remedy grievances only exasperated men of influence without bringing satisfaction to the poor.

The rescue effort is still in progress: this year alone, say exasperated Danish officials, they have handed over DKr2 billion in relief on foreign debts that piled up before the crisis.

When Zhang was fired on Monday, he became the latest victim of president Xi Jinping's frugality and anti-corruption drive – an effort fuelled in no small part by an exasperated public set on exposing the country's extreme wealth gap with mobile phone cameras and microblogs.

This exasperated Vo, who is hard to exasperate.

Matthew d'Ancona in the Sunday Telegraph described how "in the eyes of exasperated Blairites - the BBC whinged and whined, and did its best to sabotage the war effort".