Sentence examples for irritating manner from inspiring English sources
One night, she hummed in an irritating manner, under her breath.
If your shoes rub against your feet in an irritating manner, it is not a good fit.
Cinema audiences have long suffered all manner of irritating pre-film ads, but the appearance of Ms Freud on screen, whipping us into a frenzy about what we were about to see, was at best superfluous (we didn't need persuading: we'd already bought our tickets) and at worst obstructive.
Her bright condescending manner irritates the narrator, but Grace trusts her.
His son answers saying that his mother is in the Adagio bar; the boy's manner irritates him.
Lota's appointment was almost immediately resented; her patrician drive and manner irritated the civil servants she worked with; and her refusal to compromise began to grate with the jobsworths in the Superintendency of Urbanisation and Sanitation.
A week into the new parliamentary term, it is too soon to tell whether John Bercow's bouncy and interventionist manner will prove effective or irritating.
Tito's excesses in imitation eventually became as irritating to Moscow as did his independent manner—especially in foreign policy, where Tito pursued risky aims in Albania and Greece at a time when Stalin advised caution.
In Briarcliff, Mr. Trump similarly irritated officials in the manner he presented plans for a golf course on 147 acres.
While Bruce has a placating manner, Mr. Whaley has endowed him with a defensive whine that is, well, pretty irritating.
