How to Use irksome in a Sentence

irksome

adjective
  • There are a few reasons why these words are so irksome.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The irksome side effect is that many search results now look the same.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Once viewed as an irksome kids’ toy or a punchline, the stand-up scooter is on the rise.
    — Laura Neilson, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • What is irksome is restrictions are not based on the size of a building.
    — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2020
  • And the fact that money saver goes on by default is irksome of its own accord.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Many weeds are irksome or obnoxious, but some are even noxious by law.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
  • Trump tends to speak in a stream of consciousness style that’s irksome for the leader of the free world.
    — Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But Cho isn’t studying irksome effects like hay fever, or what pollen means for the plants that make it.
    — Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
  • These newest players were as irksome as the others, and plainly naïve.
    — John Heilemann, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1996
  • His lazy, nasally clue reading was irksome and interrupted the flow of the game play.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The birds also relieve their noble steeds of irksome biting flies and ticks that call the maritime forest home.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2019
  • What’s irksome is the gravity often given to it by those covering the games.
    — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • This can be quite irksome to those that side with being serious and sober about AI Ethics.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • The stadium’s sound system was irksome to those in certain sections, but that’s getting fixed.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
  • What's irksome now could get patched, and what's already there is intriguing, especially for the price.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025
  • For older generations who hold the country’s wealth, that’s irksome.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
  • But the new position of some of the tents appears more irksome to the Israeli military.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • These cute traps are shaped like little apples — an eye-pleasing solution to get rid of irksome fruit flies buzzing around produce and trash cans.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Now women’s birth control—much of which still comes with plenty of irksome, sometimes risky, side effects—seems due for some kickbacks.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The series' irksome visual choices do not help draw the audience into the story.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This is irksome in that our NATO allies have had a long time to prepare for this.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Feb. 2025
  • NordVPN aims to prevent this kind of tracking and protect you from irksome ads.
    — PCMAG, 14 June 2024
  • There's something about unfinished business that’s irksome and diehard Dexter fans know this feeling all too well.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The characters bounce off one another, either to illustrate some irksome aspect of medicine or simply to be the butt of a joke.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Enter, bakuchiol, a plant extract that offers the same skin benefits of a retinol, without the irksome side effects.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Most people find that irksome shingles symptoms slowly subside in a few weeks, but PHN can last months or even years.
    — Alyssa Sparacino, Glamour, 27 Apr. 2026
  • While there were plenty of crucial moments gone wrong late, the guard’s foul trouble — and having to miss six pivotal minutes down the stretch — was irksome to him and the rest of the team.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Stella is far from alone in this, but the premature bill delivery near the meal’s end is a little irksome, especially when the bill and dessert show up at the same time.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
  • There’s one part of the national discourse this season around the three teams that the Bengals have found particularly irksome.
    — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Few things are going right for the 2026 Red Sox, but Wong’s almost-goner ranks among the most irksome grievances.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026

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