How to Use irksome in a Sentence

irksome

adjective

• In recent weeks, the news from the U.S. side has been somewhat irksome.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• 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
• But the irksome bit then is: Why not use a Chinese model?
  — Sable Yong, Allure, 4 Aug. 2017
• And yes, ceding bragging rights to them was a bit irksome.
  — Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2017
• Liz enlists the help of her irksome next-door neighbor, Wes.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 14 Sep. 2022
• What is irksome is restrictions are not based on the size of a building.
  — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2020
• Judge Jackson appeared to find the request a bit irksome.
  — Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
• This can be quite irksome to those that side with being serious and sober about AI Ethics.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• But the new position of some of the tents appears more irksome to the Israeli military.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• His lazy, nasally clue reading was irksome and interrupted the flow of the game play.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• Or if not die, at least grow stale, repetitive, irksome?
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• The 55% figure also is irksome because it’s not what was written in the abstract or the paper.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2016
• These newest players were as irksome as the others, and plainly naïve.
  — John Heilemann, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1996
• Many weeds are irksome or obnoxious, but some are even noxious by law.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
• Another way to get through this testy time: Come up with a game plan that’ll make your hangs less irksome, Dr. Smalls-Mantey recommends.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 20 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• What’s irksome is the gravity often given to it by those covering the games.
  — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Many will take delight in the fact, which others will find irksome, that Donald Trump is also on her list, whose members number 17 in all.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• The stadium’s sound system was irksome to those in certain sections, but that’s getting fixed.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Perhaps the most irksome change Diablo 3 introduced to the series was the shift to a lighter, friendlier aesthetic.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023
• 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
• In an interview, Ms. Nir spoke about why parking in the city has become so irksome and a recent proposal for a new kind of parking system.
  — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• In Florida, though, irksome allergies can happen any time of year.
  — Michaela Mulligan, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
• Robots thrive on predictability, which has put some irksome restrictions on where and how they can be successfully deployed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024