Sentences with frustrate
frus·trate
F f - These questions frustrated me. [VERB noun]
- The government has deliberately frustrated his efforts to gain work permits for his foreign staff. [VERB noun]
- Peter Conrad says many aspects of Australia frustrate him, including hedonism and a lack of ambition.
- The Indians responded with stalling tactics of their own to frustrate their opponents.
- Her constant complaints began to frustrate him
- To frustrate plans
- Yahoo surrenders some of its advertising space to Google in an unusual test that appears designed to frustrate Microsoft.
- We have learnt a good deal about the patter that a lot of sales staff use to defeat and frustrate the unwary.
- To frustrate an opponent
- The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- Churchill's greatest achievement was to challenge and frustrate the foul attempt of other men to drag the world down into the primeval slime.
- To frustrate means to deprive of effect or render worthless an effort directed to some end; , thwart, balk both mean to frustrate by blocking someone or something moving toward some objective; , foil1 means to throw off course so as to discourage further effort or make it of no avail; to , baffle is to defeat the efforts of by bewildering or confusing [the crime baffled the police]
- A talented woman whom life had frustrated.
- His trouble is that he frustrates much too easily.
- It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
- My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
- This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.