Sentence examples for slightly irritable from inspiring English sources

Let stand for one hour, until guests are very hungry and slightly irritable.

Mr. Donovan's small, pensive mouth and slightly irritable demeanor make David earthy.

He had the relaxed but slightly irritable demeanor of someone who'd just been woken from a nap.

And, in fact, War and Peace does not quite conclude with this glimpse of married happiness, but with another slightly irritable instalment of pedagogy – a 35-page essay in which Tolstoy returns again to the animating theme of his great work.

Mr. Elsley, 49, a Scottish-born television producer with a gentle voice and sleepy eyes, recalled in an interview how he and his son Jamie Brittain created "Skins" about five years ago out of "a slightly irritable conversation across the dinner table".

I didn't want to write it, I was just slightly irritable and I went downstairs and I couldn't get to sleep until I put it on paper, and then I went to sleep.

It has a slightly dismissive, irritable ring to it and has become jargon, used unthinkingly by hacks, with 'diseases' usually yoked sullenly to it) as though these were a common plague that every gardener had to bear and share.

First, and most immediately, it will make the prison population slightly more irritable, as switching the puff-and-drag habit for nicotine patches or e-cigarettes is rarely a calming process for smokers – and 80 per cent of prisoners smoke.

He was irritable and slightly paranoid, as many pandits are, feeling underpaid and not respected.

Only three items (items 5 'Dry eyes', 24 'Troubled by feeling tired/fatigued', and 26 'Troubled by feeling irritable') correlated slightly higher with a scale other than their own, as compared to the correlation with their own scale.

The letter is written in the plaintive, irritable tone of an exasperated and slightly demotivated middle manager under pressure from the boss to deal with a recalcitrant employee.