1 They can be irritatingly indecisive at times.

2 It has an irritatingly small backspace key and I think it has a horrible plastic feel, but this is purely subjective.

3 The song is irritatingly familiar.

4 Now, irritatingly for many,(www.Sentencedict.com) Dubai is showing signs of recovery.

5 Big gamblers were often forced to place irritatingly small bets.

6 That might sound like an irritatingly abstract or pious plea.

7 Irritatingly enough, it was usually when I was alone, not that I wanted to share it with anyone. I wouldn't want them to think I was buckling under the pressure.

8 The irritatingly named 'noughties' are finally drawing to a close and, as we argue in a special issue of Weekend magazine tomorrow, the world will never be the same again.

9 "That'll be five pounds, dear", he said in an irritatingly familiar way.

10 I can't bear working with him - he's so irritatingly slow.

11 Months at sea had rusted their connections so they flickered irritatingly.

12 Tara, with his lumberjack shirt and messy hair than hangs irritatingly over his right eye.

13 But when you ask Lewis what exactly the Euston Project is, the editor-in-chief, a supremely confident showman, is irritatingly coy.

14 Much more wheat is needed to make bread, not to mention the backbreaking task of picking up loose seeds that tumble irritatingly to the ground.

15 In an era when books, movies, music, and newsprint are transmuting from atoms to bits, money remains irritatingly analog.

16 I could not hold my calmness any more and shouted at him irritatingly.

17 This young fellow seen here invoked the ire of daddy lion with some irritatingly bouncy behaviour in the stunning surroundings of the Masai Mara national reserve in Kenya.

18 Henry Kissinger in China was always a gratingly and irritatingly smug presence, but Henry Kissinger "on China" is madly baffling.