Sentences with irritate
ir·ri·tate
I i - Their attitude irritates me. [VERB noun]
- Wear rubber gloves while chopping chillies as they can irritate the skin. [VERB noun]
- If ingredients such as menthol, eucalyptus and camphor irritate the skin, why use them?
- The inevitable prominence of the issue has the potential to distract and irritate them.
- His unflinching self-confidence was bound to irritate other surgeons.
- Irritate, the broadest in scope of these terms, may suggest temporary superficial impatience, or constant annoyance in, or an outburst of anger from, the person stirred to feeling [their smugness irritated him]; to provoke is to arouse strong annoyance or resentment, or, sometimes, vindictive anger [provoked by an insult]; nettle implies irritation that stings or piques rather than infuriates [sly, nettling remarks]; exasperate1 implies intense irritation such as exhausts one's patience or makes one lose one's self-control [exasperating impudence]; peeve, an informal word, means to cause to be annoyed, cross, or fretful [he seems peeved about something]