Sentence examples for irritating delay from inspiring English sources

"What?" I said, unsure if I'd heard him properly, since there was the inevitable, irritating delay on the line.

Their sloth imposes a tiny but irritating delay on everyone else in the car — if not unethical then at least inconsiderate.

There's an irritating delay, as the scanning machine fails to recognise my prints and I take the opportunity to glance back at Hills sitting there, quite still.

And while many of the 50,000 people who drive through the new toll plaza each day might be forgiven for thinking of it more as a source of traffic backups or an irritating delay on the way to a vacation, its chief designer, Zorab Vosganian, has a loftier view.

What has happened up to that point is that Howard has gotten up late for work and has been faced with the irritating home delays that have been bedeviling sitcom characters for decades.

One minute, I delight in New York for the opportunities of spontaneity it provides, but the next minute, I detest it for that same spontaneity or rather, that trait of so quickly lifting you on a high, and then bringing you down with some irritating disappointment, like a delayed commute on the downtown 2 train.

Everyone agrees that construction delays are both irritating and expensive, and preservationists are prepared to work with transportation planners to find ways to make the approval process more efficient and less time consuming.

Maybe it was when we realized how much we were giving up in immediate earning potential by delaying our entry into the workforce; poverty is just a wee bit irritating when our friends are vacationing in Europe.

Writing in his weekly column for Fifa, Blatter said cheating in football was "deeply irritating" and expressed frustration that "dives, simulation and play-acting to feign injury" caused long delays in matches.

That was irritating enough.

The irritating Joshua?