How To Use Aggravating In A Sentence
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Shielded lamps and indirect luminaires prevent the lighting installation from aggravating the problems of stress.
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The amount of packaging in which many toys arrive is aggravating and ridiculous.
» Such a Cute Little Carbon Emitter Strocel.com
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What I find both amazing and aggravating is that those who insist on what they euphemistically call “single payer healthcare” refuse to even discuss the propriety of those who have preexisting conditions, or persist in the negative behaviors that lead to diseased conditions, paying higher premiums in exchange for their not being denied coverage.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Lipstick on the Health-Reform Pig:
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This is aggravating an already festering situation produced by outbreaks of malaria, dengue fever, hepatitis-A, leptospirosis, cholera and other diarrheal diseases.
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That .... was like ... not even a funny bad movie, it was just aggravatingly bad.
Drag me to Diablo
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While Fringe is powerfully affecting, this week's Supernatural in the same time period, aggravatingly enough is ridiculously entertaining, a welcome satirical change of pace from the grim events of this so-far-spotty post-apocalyptic sixth season.
Roush Review: Fringe, Supernatural, Spartacus: Friday Night Lights Up
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Water companies have made big strides in reducing leaks from their pipes, a historic aggravating feature in dry periods.
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This last affair, however, made me seriously uneasy, because if his exquisite sensibilities were to go the length of involving him in pot-house shindies, he would lose his name of an inoffensive, if aggravating, fool, and acquire that of a common loafer.
Lord Jim
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SPIRO: Look, when I was DA, I mean that was an issue that was always on the table, whether or not we would seek death -- and your caller is correct -- aggravating circumstances like duct tape on the mouth of a child who may have been chloroformed for whatever reason is enough to bring it up to that level.
CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2009
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There are few things more aggravating on a perfectly quiet hill than the noise of one's own legs, encased in synthetic fibres, fissling like crisp packets.
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However, excessive P addition results in a larger degree of superheat of the melt, hence aggravating the oxidation.
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I find it somewhat aggravating that your constant complaints that I am battering straw men doesn't stop you from simply ascribing a political moderateness that I have neither shown nor hold; your sensitivity to misrepresentation evidently does not run in more than one direction.
OCD
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However, excessive P addition results in a larger degree of superheat of the melt, hence aggravating the oxidation.
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I was working as an "armorbearer," which means I wander around with an earpiece, aggravating people.
Tools of Renewal
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When, after an aggravatingly long passage of time, a suitable pile of meat had been assembled, Wenda had to dig for and find two large woolen sacks and a length of thin rope.
Raven Speak
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View Answers cute too talkative suberic arrogant postmodern kinda subversive kinda hegemonic obsessed with Buffy supposed to be working aggravating in an argument kittens (1) or cheese (10)?
March 4th, 2003
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In the next two years when every household in America is hopping on the narrowband info-highway for free, the Internet will be crowded, aggravating and impersonal.
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If people want to be those aggravatingly annoyed souls who have all the cards out on time and the gifts picked, bought, and wrapped months in advance, leaving time for tins and tins of homemade cookies, long handwritten family letters, and elaborate holiday light displays, I think they should damn well be able to cope with the lack of early holiday sales.
Can we at least wait until we finish Thanksgiving dinner?
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They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.
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I have heard some complain of Parson's Resolution, and other books of like nature (good otherwise), they are too tragical, too much dejecting men, aggravating offences: great care and choice, much discretion is required in this kind.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I know they 'cheat' on them to make them easier to "dismember" as my kids and I used to say, but it's still aggravating when you encounter them in print.
Homonym, Acronym, Synonym....Oh My!! - SpouseBUZZ
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More saliently, however, this positioning of himself in such a way was, in part, because of a deep melancholy over all those who were gone from his life and regret for all the experiences that they had given him -- experiences that had accumulated and embedded carvings onto the walls of his brain until there were reliefs of inexpugnable, defunct memories, aggravating the past so that it was alive in him still.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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As a feature it just drags on too long and it is aggravatingly repetitive.
Unrest (2006)
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The four knights tried to drag him outside, to avoid aggravating their sacrilege by defiling the sanctuary.
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I will bring a lawsuit against you, if you ask me any more such aggravating questions.
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Why get riled if this week's citizens are aggravatingly unreliable or irritatingly unpunctual?
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Aggravating factors that can increase the size and severity of a quantum fissure include chroniton particles, anti-time anomalies and concentrated subspace field pulses.
The Starfleet Survival Guide
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Soaring food prices are identified as an aggravating factor.
Poor diet kills 2.6 million infants a year, says survey by Save the Children
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The -- both sides will present what's called aggravating and mitigating factors.
CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2003
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JOHNSON: Well, in -- in California, we have to weigh what we call aggravating and mitigating factors.
CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2004
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Its smallish greens slant and cant at aggravating angles.
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It's probably aggravating that your planetary ruler is the speediest and least linear of the lot, Mercury.
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‘The last two words mean the same thing,’ I interrupted aggravatingly.
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Irritably, she swatted the aggravating hand that was distracting her.
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Punishments will be reduced or toughened based on whether there are mitigating or aggravating circumstances.
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It turned out that I had a knack for order, or at least the appearance of it; and watching my mother jam unrinsed plates into the dishwasher was ten times more aggravating than doing the job properly myself.
Dreaming in French
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Aggravating the problems is a pair of culverts through Provincial Road 205, which have been set at the wrong level.
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The current best practice management for lateral epicondylitis involves a graduated tendon rehabilitation program that begins with relative rest of the injured tendon through avoidance of aggravating activities.
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There were uncomfortable saints in Cadfael's hagiology, whom he personally would have consigned to a less reverend status, but whose aggravating rectitude he could not deny.
The Holy Thief
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She looked at me with a rather aggravatingly upright air.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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But the circumstances in which you each committed this offence called for careful consideration and go a long way to aggravating the offences you have committed.
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I have an aggravating whine coming from my gearbox every time I decelerate in fourth gear.
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Diesel exhaust is particularly aggravating to many susceptible individuals.
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Belatacept is different from calcineurin inhibitors (CNI), such as cyclosporine, which is the class of drugs most commonly used to suppress the immune system in transplant patients, because it does not cause the toxicities associated with CNI - such as nephrotoxicity and aggravating cardiovascular risk factors.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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The cliffhanger is good, but not aggravating the way some books are.
Archive 2010-03-01
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To say that I am irritated by the fact I have to pay for their laziness is an understatement, but even more aggravating is the fact they pay their top execs so damn much.
If You Want To Be Safe, Don’t Mention My Birthday… « The Graveyard
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I can't even decide which step of this adventure is the most aggravating.
A Change I Would Like To See - SpouseBUZZ
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The Court of Appeals framed the issue as follows: “[W] hether the imposition of felony consequences, based upon possession of small amounts of marihuana, which would constitute a violation outside of prison (see Penal Law §§ 221.05, 221.10 [2] [absent aggravating circumstances, not present here, possession of 25 grams or less of marihuana is a non-criminal violation]), comports with the Legislature’s intent as codified in Penal Law §§ 205.00 (4) and 205.25 (2).”
NY Court of Appeals
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The ex-Darlington dreadnought returned against Forest Green Rovers but did not train for much of last week after aggravating the injury.
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Shielded lamps and indirect luminaires prevent the lighting installation from aggravating the problems of stress.
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After five aggravating minutes, with my son growing impatient, I finally manage to tweeze a leg... and then the leg pops off.
Julie Genovese: Control Freaks and Crickets: When to Relax and Let Go
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his hair was caught aggravatingly in the branches of the tree
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He added: ‘Another aggravating factor is that I cannot accept, indeed I am not certain I am even invited to, that it is by mere mischance that you picked upon an elderly person.’
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It is easy to see how these long term weaknesses are aggravating the current malaise.
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There are no words for this kind of exasperating character, and yet one quickly realizes that if Woody had played it, this scene would have been hilarious instead of pathetic and aggravating.
Archive 2008-11-01
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The concept being forced to use an anonymous american proxy just to be permitted to view a specific website is just plain aggravating.
Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives
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The train journey was filled with little aggravating child noises and I was sitting in the wrong direction so arrive in LA feeling queasy and dizzy.
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He was severely reprimanded by the court, for aggravating his guilt by aspersing the character of a woman of remarkable virtue and piety, whom he had cruelly deprived of life.
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It's really aggravating, but I don't want to wear a tiepin and look like a total geek either.
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With the wind at her back Joy found the walk aggravating due to the fact that her waist long hair threw itself in front of her vision in tangled masses.
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Her constant interruptions were very aggravating.
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Shielded lamps and indirect luminaires prevent the lighting installation from aggravating the problems of stress.
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In doing so, this mucus becomes a culture medium for further bacterial growth, aggravating the state of recurrent infections.
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Death is dreary enough at best, but I never could see any sense in aggravating its horrors by stupid funeral customs.
Oldtown Folks
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Third, Beijing is likely to emerge as an exporting superpower, aggravating America's trade deficit and fanning protectionist pressures in a slumping world economy.
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Representing the 40+ crowd this year in ways unprecedented both the lousy The Proposal and the as-of-yet-unseen by me The Blind Side, Bullock is the favorite over Streep's senior street cred, something she's aggravatingly coasted on in awards consideration for some time now; I dig her work in Doubt, but let's face it: she could take a dump in a P.T.
Oscar 2010 Winner Prediction: Best Actress
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The accompanying performance of Symphony of Psalms is altogether more satisfactory, though the recording, aggravatingly, emphasises the chorus at the expense of the orchestra.
Stravinsky: The Firebird; Symphony of Psalms
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FBI warnings are irritating enough, but this is especially aggravating, for two reasons.
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The jury must weigh aggravating and mitigating factors in deciding punishment.
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“What’s aggravating is they are not in the same format so it’s not like you can cut and paste.”
Recovery 2.0: The network « BuzzMachine
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One is unique to Germany: the preposterous voting system that tries to meld proportional representation with first-past-the-post constituencies and succeeds in aggravating the weaknesses of both.
Games
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Prior to my night of nocturnal mutterings two other rather aggravating events took place.
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Once a jury renders a guilty verdict for murder in the first degree, mitigating factors are weighed against aggravating circumstances to decide the defendant's fate.
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These policies are, in turn, aggravating hostilities and allowing the Bush administration to justify its belligerence.
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I have changed my mind," he said, one evening, with that smiling positiveness which is so aggravating: "I am very much inclined to believe that Ben Craven did kill Clough.
The Hallam Succession
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Belatacept is different from calcineurin inhibitors (CNI), such as cyclosporine, which is the class of drugs most commonly used to suppress the immune system in transplant patients, because it does not cause the toxicities associated with CNI - such as nephrotoxicity and aggravating cardiovascular risk factors.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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Fluoride can not only cause mottling of the teeth known as fluorosis, but is also thought to be an aggravating factor in the onset of osteoporosis and the junior version, osteomalacia.
Where do I find Non-Toxic Toiletries?
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The four knights tried to drag him outside, to avoid aggravating their sacrilege by defiling the sanctuary.
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The least aggravating which these days is a plus of this week's newbies is ABC's Happy Endings, the latest in a long line of derivative Friends rom-com clones about a quippy, cutesy sextet of best buds who could use a refresher course in chemistry.
Roush Review: Not Happy With New Network Comedies
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I had a bad habit of aggravating people; perhaps it was because they couldn't classify me.
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Constant interruptions are very aggravating when you're trying to work.
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The country's trade surplus swelled sevenfold to US $80.4 billion in the first 10 months of this year, aggravating tensions with the US and the EU, its biggest trading partners.
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Bedtime is sometimes fulfilling, but more often exhausting and aggravating.
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Yes, this week's retro Mercury can be aggravating and infuriating, so fume and brood if you want to.
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The last clause seems at first view, to refer to the words which immediately precede, which is to understand our Savior as aggravating the guilt of those who delivered him to Pilate, from the consideration of Pilate's power having been derived from above.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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In a somewhat joking frame, Mr. Morris quipped, ‘He is skilled at aggravating us and producing tension in the household.’
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My iracund heart had already acquired a propensity for aggravating its own fault lines—acquired it in my infancy, and developed it like a minor league prospect.
