How to Use vexing in a Sentence

vexing

adjective
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  • And even more vexing, what to do with those who remain?
    — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For all small business owners with PPP loans, the issue of forgiveness has been the most vexing.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 9 June 2020
  • Not after the horse owner with the favorite in the Belmont captured the essence of racing’s most vexing issue.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • But also, there's a bigger fix that could help address the most vexing flight delays.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • After 15 months of lows, rates of these vexing viruses are climbing.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
  • Which raises one very vexing question: What to do for an encore?
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But Vermes’ team is mostly healthy this spring, making this year’s start even more vexing.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2024
  • Our most vexing challenges in medicine right now are twofold: attracting young people to the field and keeping them there.
    — David Weill, STAT, 17 Oct. 2019
  • And looming over it all for the new prime minister is the vexing problem of President Trump.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • And looming over it for the new prime minister is the vexing problem of President Trump.
    — Steven Erlanger, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has one vexing issue: Turnovers.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • There also were three interceptions, and that is the vexing part of Winston’s game.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Of the Brontë sisters, Emily has long been considered the most vexing.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Cera plays him with a slightly flat affect that reads as vexing or charming depending on the scene.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The most vexing issue of the peace deal, the physical demarcation of the border, appears to have been kicked into the long grass.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • The new order must also be decentralized to be effective; the resources and wisdom needed to solve many vexing problems are not concentrated in the United States.
    — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
  • And there are a number of large projects continuing across the state, from Waterbury to East Lyme, in various stages, all with the possibility of creating vexing slow downs.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2024

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