Sentence examples for then irritating from inspiring English sources

If the goal is a political prop, then irritating the establishment works perfectly.

It happened at a rate that was at first laughable and then irritating.

When I asked people on Twitter to describe face-to-face fundraising in one word I was dismayed that so many came back with replies such as: "If you mean chugging, then: irritating".

Then less so, then annoying, then irritating as hell.

Whatever your visual acuity, you will be charmed, then irritated, by birdcalls made in France of wood, rubber, and brass.

It's a slimy struggle, and Laban gets distracted and then irritated by the advertising card at the bottom of the foam package.

It charms then irritates, and can set off invigorating internal arguments about the nature of art and its relationship to the world.

Hunched over a bowl of soup at lunch one day, the mousy-looking Jean Ms. Parkerr) becomes flustered, then irritated, then quietly outraged as the phone of a man across the way trills insistently.

Whenever my wife and I visit our local flea market, the ever-more-popular Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, I inevitably end up being amazed, then irritated, at what I see.

(A serf is struck by Bakunin's mother and runs away crying. In real life, by contrast, Turgenev's grandmother hit a young serf and then, irritated by his outcry, smothered him to death).

The abnormal collection of fluid leads to stretching of the area which then irritates the nerve endings in that region and leads to pain.