Sentence examples for small irritation from inspiring English sources

That kind of prejudice is a small irritation that Ike and his family members can afford to ignore.

Because much of her work was set in Mississippi, critics reflexively compared it to Faulkner, an analogy that caused her no small irritation over time.

The argument between husband and wife hovers in the air, an unresolved difference widened by all the small irritations that accumulate in a long marriage.

But it's easy to forgive McCann these small irritations of style, because his ambition and skill as a storyteller is such that the disconnected parts of this narrative seem to integrate into something large and subtly cohesive and humane.

But these small irritations are far outweighed by the pleasures provided by this pacy, readable and entertaining manifesto for a zoobiquitous approach to health and wellbeing, to be welcomed by vets and other human animals.

"In His Own Words" does have some small irritations.

Do not let small irritations get in your way, and pretend that today is the last day of your life.

When he complains to a local capo he hasn't been paid what he was promised, the man sneers: "Chamberlain promised peace – d'you know who that is?" Richie doesn't – perhaps oddly, as he's Polish – but never betrays the smallest interest, or indeed the smallest irritation, at this history lesson.

Follow up bronchoscopy revealed minor irritation of the tracheal mucosa, hypertrophy between the stent fibers, and a small degree of non-purulent secretion (Fig.  4).

There are minor irritations.

A boy with gay parents breaks loose with a small burst of irritation.