How to Use vexing in a Sentence

vexing

adjective
  • Speaking of lips, is there any body part more vexing in the cold?
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 11 Dec. 2017
  • This is why the story of his rise and fall—and then his rise again—is so vexing.
    — Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • The details of such an agreement could prove vexing, of course.
    — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Khan went on for a minute about a vexing old record deal then seemed wisely to think better of that.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
  • But a few details that might be quite vexing to the bride and groom are playing out in public.
    — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
  • Trump, in fact, found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary.
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 4 Jan. 2018
  • There are no puddles of grease, no bald patches of dough, no vexing bubbles or stray scorch marks.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
  • What set up the rotation that created the hook is a bit more vexing.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • But distilling which of the three is causing players to miss putts can be vexing.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • The last most vexing question is what to do to make Facebook data safer.
    — Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2018
  • But the loss of immigrants may be a more vexing and long-lasting problem.
    — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Learning how to hunt is a vexing but necessary struggle for the young tigers.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
  • For our most vexing problems, the best way forward is with all parties at the table.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Aug. 2017
  • More vexing for the moderators may be just what questions to ask, and how and when to ask them.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • But also, there's a bigger fix that could help address the most vexing flight delays.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • After 15 months of lows, rates of these vexing viruses are climbing.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
  • In a vexing case, what was unheard and what did not happen proved to be the crucial evidence.
    — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025
  • Even more vexing for me, the congressional boundary is only a block away.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The White House is eager to demonstrate progress on a vexing host of supply chain snarls.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But the vexing question is, just why in the hell would anybody want to salvage Mars One?
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
  • That’s why the decision to pause the J&J vaccine is so vexing.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Long Covid remains one of the more vexing aspects of Covid-19.
    — Dave Wessner, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The issues of race and policing remain some of the most vexing in America.
    — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • And that can change one of the most vexing problems for women in the American workforce — wages.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Even more vexing, Chirinos said, was that Timmons seemed to widen his zone in the later innings.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The injury report said his knee and back hurt coming off 21 pressures in that vexing loss to the Browns.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Our look at the vexing issue that is Pac-12 night games has been pushed back to Tuesday morning.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • After a year of startling growth, the tech industry faces a more vexing 2021.
    — Sebastian Herrera, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Yet while the loss of Turner seems to be the bigger problem on the surface, the bullpen’s latest meltdown is far more vexing.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • On the other hand, the potential to solve mankind’s most vexing problems is tantalizing.
    — G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2026

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