How to Use vex in a Sentence

vex

verb

• We were vexed by the delay.
• This problem has vexed researchers for years.
• The question seemed to vex the many passers-by who stopped to gape.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• Mostly, though, Brown’s salve for what vexed his fans aimed for the hips, not the head.
  — Renée Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Steven Brill agrees that the country’s in bad shape and its people are vexed by it.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• Matt Barnes, charged with the blown save and loss on Wednesday, was vexed by his poor outing.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2019
• Celtics center Al Horford vexed the Bucks all night long.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2017
• As with last week's icy mix, the overnight snowfall vexed drivers across the region.
  — Mike Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2020
• If you’ve been vexed by the situation with @motel6 in Phoenix.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
• The question of where Izzy would attend school had been vexing me for two years.
  — Julie Kim, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2023
• At that point, rip a hole in the space-time continuum, begin anew, and try to vex the Veks again.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2018
• The Raiders trusted Kolton Miller enough to leave him on the left side and have Brown play on the right, a position that has vexed them for years.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2019
• The pitching of starter Tyler Chatwood has been vexing.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 30 May 2017
• The question of who hired the firm has vexed Facebook employees.
  — Deepa Seetharaman, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
• Wojciechowski switched to a 2-3 zone that seemed to vex the Bluejays.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2018
• He gets equally vexed on behalf of a friend’s movie, a rival’s movie, any movie.
  — Joanne Kaufman, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
• No one wants to hear that there's no solution to the problem that vexes them.
  — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019
• With so many health concerns vexing the new year, this one’s quick, easy, and cheap to cross off your worry list.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2024
• Four of those have come against the Cavs, who have designed a defense that continues to vex him.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 6 May 2018
• Other fans have dived from nearby piers and swum to the back of the set, vexing gate guards charged with keeping them at bay.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• His friends defend the president, and point to the legal troubles that vex him.
  — Christi Parsons, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• This is vexing because the Dolphins spent tons of cap space and most of their draft resources on the defense in 2017.
  — Armando Salguero, miamiherald, 25 Apr. 2018
• The same rim that seemed to have a lid on it for the Wildcats was just as vexing for Kansas after halftime.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• Yet, food companies have been dealing with many of the same price hikes that have vexed their customers.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Iger’s biggest challenge might be the one that has vexed him the most: finding a successor.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• That question has vexed even many of the most ardent climate-change activists.
  — oregonlive.com, 9 July 2019
• High was shocked when her doctor told her she, too, had the illness that vexed her siblings and parents.
  — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The finding could be a breakthrough in a mystery that has vexed scientists for years.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• Nearly a century ago, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger called attention to a quirk of the quantum world that has fascinated and vexed researchers ever since.
  — Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2024
• There’s a puzzling tension inherent in these amplitudes — one that has vexed generations of quantum physicists going back to Feynman and Schwinger themselves.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024