How to Use vexation in a Sentence

vexation

noun
  • In the end, this is all a reminder of where to source the vexation.
    — Sam McDowell May 22, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • People who have lost their jobs have lost honor and vexation at once.
    — Ai Weiwei, The Atlantic, 2 June 2020
  • The owners tend to be torn between a deep sense of pride and a constant vexation.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • This vexation is not just the domain of bookworms and old China hands.
    — John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
  • And naturally, all this vexation just might be blocking the path to love.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • The girl narrowed her eyes, whether in confusion or vexation, Bev wasn’t sure.
    — J. Robert Lennon, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • My vexation over the state of my Suburban quickly turned to concern.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Other cities have been more vocal about their vexations with robot vehicles.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Part of the enduring fascination of his life — also the vexation — is trying to square the two.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Why does this fashion vexation afflict so many women, including those with bursting armoires?
    — Ann Binlot, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But a labor union has already voiced its vexation at the technology and e-commerce behemoth.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The exchange, in a Maryland murder case in which both families knew well the vexations of mental-health struggles, laid bare a shared pain.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 26 July 2017
  • The external world threatened Caesar less than the vexations of ordinary life.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Sougwen Chung looks down at her silent, stubborn collaborator with a mix of affection and mild vexation.
    — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Bernal has really stepped into his gray fox era, using his (extremely handsome) looks to lean into the vexation of his character’s age and past.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Luckily, vexations are evergreen if given half a chance, and, at least on Broadway, are assuageable.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • This leads to her vexation over Edward’s single-minded concern for Elizabeth.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
  • No single reason was blamed for New York’s vacancy vexation, but a rise in retail theft was raised repeatedly.
    — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yup, that burning vexation gets replaced with satisfaction and a deep feeling of accomplishment.
    — Amy Eisinger, M.a., SELF, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That precise sensation—a vague disquietude, a vexation—is central to the band’s distinctiveness.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The perception of Biden as ineffective has been a source of much vexation in the President’s camp, and the subject of many an op-ed column and blog post.
    — James Lardner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • He was also alerted to the challenges of moon travel, and even expressed a slight vexation that divine providence did not endow the human body with any natural means of flying.
    — Maria Avxentevskaya, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2017
  • Alex’s sixty-minute set consisted of witty rants on the quotidian vexations of life, such as squabbles with Internet bullies and an awkward first date.
    — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Fishing rights have been a growing point of vexation between Britain and the European Union since Britons voted to leave the bloc in 2016.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The slowness of California’s vote-counting can be a perennial vexation for the rest of the country, particularly when the balance of power in the House is on the line.
    — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The seat assignment saga is the latest point of vexation in a World Cup ticketing process that has soured fans on FIFA and its banner event.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Much of her vexation was directed at Jeffrey Wertkin, one of the Justice Department’s top picks for difficult fraud assignments.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In essence, this is the character Eggers introduces us to — the Rupert bear version of Alkhanshali, agreeable to the hilt, whose strongest emotion appears to be mild vexation.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile, at the Capitol, multiple Democrats piled on with expressions of surprise and vexation at Manchin’s seemingly sudden change of position.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2021

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