How to Use vexing in a Sentence

vexing

adjective
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  • Trump, in fact, found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary.
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Speaking of lips, is there any body part more vexing in the cold?
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The courts have proved vexing for Trump since his first days in office.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
  • And even more vexing, what to do with those who remain?
    — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The dice also serve as a vexing reminder to Ben (a.k.a.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Long Covid remains one of the more vexing aspects of Covid-19.
    — Dave Wessner, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Even more vexing is the question of justice for past crimes.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • That’s why the decision to pause the J&J vaccine is so vexing.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Apr. 2021
  • So, what is so vexing about the spelling of Cincinnati?
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Its ending is, perhaps, the film’s most vexing move of all.
    — Laura Bradley, HWD, 8 June 2018
  • But the vexing question is, just why in the hell would anybody want to salvage Mars One?
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
  • Only, the Raptors proved more vexing than the 2018 skeleton version of the Cavs.
    — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 15 June 2019
  • The White House is eager to demonstrate progress on a vexing host of supply chain snarls.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Why the Warriors wouldn’t bring him back next season: Bender is one of the more vexing players in the league.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
  • The last most vexing question is what to do to make Facebook data safer.
    — Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2018
  • More vexing for the moderators may be just what questions to ask, and how and when to ask them.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • Our look at the vexing issue that is Pac-12 night games has been pushed back to Tuesday morning.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • What set up the rotation that created the hook is a bit more vexing.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • The issues of race and policing remain some of the most vexing in America.
    — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But the loss of immigrants may be a more vexing and long-lasting problem.
    — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • For our most vexing problems, the best way forward is with all parties at the table.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Aug. 2017
  • And that can change one of the most vexing problems for women in the American workforce — wages.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Ravens face a vexing decision on his fifth-year option.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • But distilling which of the three is causing players to miss putts can be vexing.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • After a year of startling growth, the tech industry faces a more vexing 2021.
    — Sebastian Herrera, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2021
  • There are no puddles of grease, no bald patches of dough, no vexing bubbles or stray scorch marks.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Even more vexing, Chirinos said, was that Timmons seemed to widen his zone in the later innings.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 29 Apr. 2018
  • For all small business owners with PPP loans, the issue of forgiveness has been the most vexing.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 9 June 2020
  • Public access has become a vexing issue as wealthy landowners purchase more property along the West’s mountain streams and rivers.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2024
  • If these numbers were actually filmed in full, hacking off their final bars might’ve cut the total runtime, but at the cost of vexing audiences even further.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024

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