exasperation
Example Sentences
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As the losses pile up, urgency is giving way to exasperation for a team with an especially challenging schedule of upcoming opponents: at Seattle, Denver, at Kansas City, at Rams, Houston, at Baltimore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Her racquet felt the brunt of her exasperation as she slammed it to the ground after offering a break point to Rybakina in the second set.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"We can't even fill the coffee cups to the brim or they spill," his son Linus, 19, added with an air of amused exasperation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The revelations from the files further fueled the widespread, bipartisan exasperation among voters with the wealthiest elites.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Too late I realized that for all his air of exasperation this was a moment he had dreamed of during many long, uneventful shifts in his little glass booth.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing exasperation
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