How to Use frustrating in a Sentence

frustrating

adjective
  • All these delays have been very frustrating.
  • On the short list of the most frustrating games of the year.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
  • To get a no-call at the rim is frustrating in front of our bench.
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Frizzy hair can be frustrating, but there are a bunch of ways to tame the frizz.
    Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 12 May 2023
  • That’s been the most frustrating thing the last month, struggling with that.
    cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
  • As a curly girl, there are a lot of times when my hair is frustrating to me.
    Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 16 Dec. 2022
  • All the things that can be frustrating about the space is also part of the charm and the history of the space.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2024
  • To be down 2-0 at any point in that game was frustrating. ...
    George Richards, Sun Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Clancy said the lack of movement on the bills was frustrating.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
  • And that is frustrating for both the mayor and migrants.
    Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Rummaged through your bag in the dark can be frustrating.
    Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
  • What was frustrating was the lost potential of the script.
    Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2024
  • For home sellers, the past six months or so have been frustrating.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That’s going to be frustrating for anybody to stay in a groove or find a groove.
    Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
  • This frustrating time of day can nearly bring me to tears on some nights.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 22 Apr. 2024
  • This sums up why the Browns season has been so frustrating.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • And yet the overuse of this crutch was frustrating last night, most of all because Short suffered for it.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • That's frustrating given that the point of spending this kind of money is to write on it.
    Gear Team, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Meghan spoke later to Oprah about how frustrating that was for her.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 10 Jan. 2023
  • What had the look of a feel-good sweep turned out to be one of the more frustrating losses of the season for the Milwaukee Brewers.
    Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
  • And although the Game 1 loss was frustrating and disappointing, the fact is the Dodgers are just down 1-0 in the series.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • For the Mustangs, starter Kyle Ashman fouled out in the frustrating third quarter.
    Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Last year, storms washed out a stretch of I-10 at nearly the same place east of the Palm Springs area, frustrating motorists and truckers for four days.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Watching the game from afar was frustrating for the rookie, who has played in three games so far this season.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The delay might be frustrating for fans, but Hicks has his reasons.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2023
  • It has been used to crack some of the country’s most frustrating cold cases, most notably the arrest of the Golden State Killer in 2018.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Casey Hogan had no idea her new address would be so frustrating.
    Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
  • The near silence from our own government over the past 12 days has been frustrating.
    Tony Hunter, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Decorative Accents Walking into a resale shop and seeing a mass of decor items can be frustrating.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
  • As any good leader will tell you, leading is inevitably frustrating and emotionally demanding.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025

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