Sentence examples for were aggravated from inspiring English sources
verb
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
- To aggravate my woes. —Alexander Pope
"Of course, so many people were aggravated by that".
Worse, the conflicts of customer and taxpayer interest were aggravated by clashes of organisational culture.
Ethnic divisions were aggravated as each side raised more objections, throwing the entire constitution into question.
Last year sales were aggravated due to very intense price discounting, led by McDonald's.
Those tensions were aggravated by the large shadow Mr. Kennedy casts in both Congress and Massachusetts.
Tensions were aggravated in 1984, when Tversky was given a MacArthur "genius" grant, and Kahneman wasn't.
Their problems on the latter front were aggravated by injuries to Francis Coquelin and Mikel Arteta.
Its problems were aggravated when the US began expelling thousands of refugees.
These difficulties were aggravated when Soviet aid and technicians were withdrawn.
Those concerns were aggravated by the political gridlock that plagued Baghdad after the March 2010 elections.
His neediness and his desire for control, in part traceable to his mother's early death, were aggravated.
