vex

in a sentence

Am I vexing you, Jefferson?  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying, 1993

VLADIMIR: (vexed). Then why do you always come crawling back?  (source) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 1953

my how this woman vexes me!  (source) Stephen King, Rose Red, 2002

"What do they say?" asked Gandalf and Thorin together, a bit vexed perhaps that even Elrond should have found this out first, though really there had not been a chance before, and there would not have been another until goodness knows when.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

I didn't mean to vex you and I only meant it for a joke.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

Next to "And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness......And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED."†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Tha' doesn't know what he's like when anything vexes him.†  (source) Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, 1911

Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians.†  (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

if the baron would sleep unvexed, the freeman must sit up all night after his day's work and whip the ponds to keep the frogs quiet;†  (source) Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889

I have decided, nevertheless, to—that is, decided I(Vexedly) Miss Sullivan, I find it difficult to talk through those glasses.†  (source) William Gibson, The Miracle Worker, 1957

Ever the hard unsunk ground, Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides, Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real, Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts, Ever the vexer's hoot!†  (source) Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

It were good that thou with me shouldest vex him that vexeth me.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

how vexest thou this man?†  (source) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 1601