Sentence examples for persistent annoyance from inspiring English sources

First prize for most persistent annoyance among New York City drivers usually goes to alternate-side-of-the-street parking.

The music was there like a persistent annoyance, dead music, ancient, appreciated by no one, not even the regulars.

Sitting on 47th Street, on top of the tracks, was the crew's most persistent annoyance: a double-parked car, in this case a blue Ford Spirit.

A22 Third-Party Victor Pushes On Tom Golisano, the presumed winner of the Independence Party primary and a persistent annoyance to Gov. George E. Pataki, plans a fresh barrage of television ads within a couple of days.

Not half as irritating, however, as his decision to set the book entirely in the present tense, a persistent cause of annoyance as he skips between historical and contemporary time-frames.

Watch the line between persistence and annoyance.

But the federal judge in the case, Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria, Va., has expressed increasing annoyance over persistent questions about the N.S.A.'s possible role.

Be persistent, but not an annoyance.

Formulating a good working definition of annoyance is a persistent challenge for researchers.

Your colleague is thoughtful, so you feel guilty at your annoyance over the persistent questioning.

But in the dwindling months of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's tenure, his administration has been charged with a final, 11th-hour transportation heave: ensuring that its fleetwide Taxi of Tomorrow — with a spacious back seat, "low-annoyance" horn and a persistent habit of attracting lawsuits and political opposition — reaches the road.