How to Use vexation in a Sentence

vexation

noun

• The owners tend to be torn between a deep sense of pride and a constant vexation.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• People who have lost their jobs have lost honor and vexation at once.
  — Ai Weiwei, The Atlantic, 2 June 2020
• The girl narrowed her eyes, whether in confusion or vexation, Bev wasn’t sure.
  — J. Robert Lennon, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• And naturally, all this vexation just might be blocking the path to love.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
• Fishing rights have been a growing point of vexation between Britain and the European Union since Britons voted to leave the bloc in 2016.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• Part of the enduring fascination of his life — also the vexation — is trying to square the two.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• There are three stages of erotomania: hope, vexation, and grudge, says Faden.
  — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• The appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Trump-Russia matter will spell vexation in the medium term and may spell danger in the long term.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
• The exchange, in a Maryland murder case in which both families knew well the vexations of mental-health struggles, laid bare a shared pain.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 26 July 2017
• And this spluttering vexation is comical coming from a man who is veritably the L. Ron Hubbard of the Churchill cult.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
• In essence, this is the character Eggers introduces us to — the Rupert bear version of Alkhanshali, agreeable to the hilt, whose strongest emotion appears to be mild vexation.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• While leagues like the NBA have made the national protests a vocal and constant point of emphasis — to the applause of some fans and the vexation of others — attention Saturday will likely be on the race itself.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2020
• He was also alerted to the challenges of moon travel, and even expressed a slight vexation that divine providence did not endow the human body with any natural means of flying.
  — Maria Avxentevskaya, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2017
• Sougwen Chung looks down at her silent, stubborn collaborator with a mix of affection and mild vexation.
  — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
• While the smaller California sea lions threaten the extinction of the Willamette Valley's wild winter steelhead runs, the Steller's pose an even greater vexation for sturgeon managers.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Much of her vexation was directed at Jeffrey Wertkin, one of the Justice Department’s top picks for difficult fraud assignments.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2022
• Luckily, vexations are evergreen if given half a chance, and, at least on Broadway, are assuageable.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• This leads to her vexation over Edward’s single-minded concern for Elizabeth.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Why does this fashion vexation afflict so many women, including those with bursting armoires?
  — Ann Binlot, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, at the Capitol, multiple Democrats piled on with expressions of surprise and vexation at Manchin’s seemingly sudden change of position.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
• As one of the leading mainstream journalists investigating the phenomenon over the past 20-plus years, Leslie Kean shares this enduring vexation.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• Yup, that burning vexation gets replaced with satisfaction and a deep feeling of accomplishment.
  — Amy Eisinger, M.a., SELF, 2 Dec. 2022
• High-tech and health-care companies have a disproportionate number of foreign workers on their payrolls, and immigrants also are overrepresented on the welfare rolls, to the dismay and vexation of many natives.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Media observers have often repeated this quotation with vexation and alarm, but the events of Donnygate reveal a more insidious reality behind the statement.
  — vanityfair.com, 11 July 2017
• Mission models have been a mainstay of California elementary education for decades, becoming a source of both nostalgia and vexation to parents.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• These social vexations work as cultural criticism, pinpointing Mike’s terror — the panic of exasperated people going through hell, not dream theory.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024