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How to use the word exasperation in a Sentence?

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I did it out of desperation, out of exasperation, out of trying to find a way to help.

Leo Soto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is striking that the mood of the country has such a dark streak to it, i don’t know that it is anger, though; more like a deep exasperation with politics and political processes that seem disconnected from the problems of most Americans.

Republican Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is a contributor to terrorism in many different ways and the extremism that we see in the world today comes to no small degree from the utter exasperation that people have with the sense that the system is rigged, we see this anger manifesting itself in different forms in elections around the world, including ours.

John Kerry

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Bruce just isn't a man with a double life, but a character shaped with love and exasperation, recrimination and guilt by Alison's recollection of him.

The New York Times

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was not exactly a surprise, as we know bigotry of this kind persists, so much as exasperation that it would prove such a waste of state resources.

Assemblymember Susan Eggman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I share the exasperation of the Australian public at what appears to be someone who's been having a lend of us, for many years.

Tony Abbott

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Barber B. Conable, Jr

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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