How to Use exasperated in a Sentence

exasperated

adjective
  • Look at the red cheeks, pie-dish eyes, exasperated brows and open mouth.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • But over the weekend, some users became exasperated with the amount of fake news on the platform.
    — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • An exasperated worker in a yellow vest may direct you to turn around.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Welch appeared exasperated, leaning back in his seat and laughing out loud.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Now, exasperated employers want to know what makes their workers tick.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 June 2024
  • Wendell Pierce, who always brightens the room, co-stars as the exasperated chief.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The stiff, exasperated rule-followers voters love to see lose.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Josh asks for silence, then later explains — in an exasperated tone — that the ruckus was distracting him.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Metz wrote, followed by a collection of exasperated and surprised sounds.
    — Carson Burton, Variety, 12 July 2022
  • Moore tries her best, but this movie isn’t interested in her exasperated single mom, leaving her to chug wine and do a lot of worrying.
    — Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The belief that a long song was a good song was, judging from the exasperated look of other pub patrons, not widely held 30 years ago.
    — Theunis Bates, theweek, 6 Feb. 2024
  • This might inspire a few exasperated eye rolls, but this is really the pandemic’s doing.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 5 July 2024
  • More than once, Mariana emits an exasperated scream that goes on and on and on, almost like an operatic aria.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Law enforcement officers in the courtroom shook their heads and an exasperated chuckle was heard at his question.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The two are still debating the issue as an exasperated Arthur rides off to find another recruit.
    — ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Many theories have since been advanced to explain the explosion of violent crime, but at the time many of us felt exasperated.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But Biden throughout his career has resisted staying on message, and teleprompters have been a way for his exasperated aides to try to keep him on track.
    — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • Before responding to the journalist, the bot appeared to pull an exasperated expression, rolling its pale blue eyes to one side.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • Liu, 28, recalls with an exasperated grin.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • After a few takes of this, your would-be photographers will probably be too exasperated and bewildered to protest.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • But exasperated flyers, like Arthur Ginolfi, say Delta needs to do better to take care of their customers.
    — Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN, 25 July 2024
  • Even his mistake for Damsgaard’s opener brought more of a stunned silence than exasperated groans or impulsive anger from the locals.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Max Homa was visibly a bit exasperated on the 15th tee, flushing his short iron, watching it for a few beats, then bending down to pick up his tee.
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2023
  • In the final photo in the carousel, a seemingly exasperated Bear threw his head back as his mom tried to pose with him inside what appeared to be a helicopter.
    — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • In the final photo in the carousel, a seemingly exasperated Bear threw his head back as his mom tried to pose with him inside of what appeared to be a helicopter.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
  • The person saying this, with a sightly exasperated air, is named Jean (Rosy McEwen).
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2023
  • Sexton jogged back out to the perimeter to collect an exasperated pass from Giddey, who reset himself into downhill motion off the ball.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • His son, who memorized the Latin Mass after several years of going to church with his father, sounds exasperated.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The views from the sideline and in Jerry Jones’ owner’s suite said it all, as there was a ton of head shaking and exasperated looks with the team pressing to figure it out.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • When someone claiming to be a Qatari emissary tried to renew contact, early this year, Nada was too exasperated to engage.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023

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