How to Use annoy in a Sentence

annoy

verb
  • Just the idea of him annoys me.
    — ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • This might annoy you to no end.
    — Paul Prather, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Maybe annoyed enough to fix it.
    — Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2026
  • If you’re annoyed by your field of view, your dog is too.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Most gnats cause little harm but annoy us to no end.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Luis is frankly annoyed by this type of music.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The pieces are small enough to be hard to get but are bright enough to annoy you.
    — Hunter Cooke, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The bartender is annoyed and goes for a smoke.
    — E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Is there a world in which my cat is not annoying me right now?
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • Or annoyed at myself for the whole stunt.
    — Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Comments about my fast walk annoy me.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Scarves annoy me more than help me, so turtlenecks are the move.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Each of these failures doesn’t just annoy users.
    — Ahmed Elshireef, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Don't push sales and annoy people.
    — Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But now Lamar is doing press annoyed with me.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There are a number of reasons to be annoyed by such rhetoric.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 5 June 2024
  • That’s what so annoys Erika at some point.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
  • Maybe this will be the year when the owner stops being annoyed.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Telling your car to change the heat or radio tends to annoy drivers.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • My husband of three years has a few habits that annoy and frustrate me.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • We get used to it quickly, and will be annoyed when it is replaced.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Here’s my list of the top issues that annoy or frustrate users.
    — Yec, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • She could have been annoyed with Punch, which upset her.
    — Doris Alvarez Cea, Florida Times-Union, 24 Feb. 2026
  • You’re annoyed by it all, until the next horde of patrons do the same.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2024
  • So here are five birds that just suck, in order of who annoys me most today.
    — Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • And get annoyed when people spell it wrong anyway?
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • My sleep score last night was only 59, which annoyed me like crazy.
    — Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Think of it as welcoming in a new year that hasn’t yet had a chance to annoy us.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Margot’s father still annoyed them from time to time.
    — Josh Davis, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Weird; annoying even – but the floaters did not seem urgent.
    — Peter Ubel, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026

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