Explore Irritant through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like thorn or annoyance. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Irritant meaning
- Causing irritation or inflammation.
- Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.
Synonyms of Irritant
Using Irritant
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing irritation or inflammation. | Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.
- Useful related words include: thorn, annoyance, bother, botheration.
- In the example corpus, irritant often appears in combinations such as: an irritant, irritant and, the irritant.
Context around Irritant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Irritant
- In this selection, "irritant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, contact, chemical, lung, sensitizer, ingestion and lung stand out and add context to how "irritant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a chemical irritant laura goldblatt and a noxious irritant spray. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "irritant" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and abductors, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with irritant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
By virtue of that, we’re an irritant. (8 words)
He is also accused of possessing the irritant. (8 words)
John Bercow: ‘I may be pompous and an irritant. (9 words)
As police moved in, students were pushed to the ground, pulled by their arms and sprayed with a chemical irritant, Laura Goldblatt, an assistant professor of English and global studies who has been helping student demonstrators, told The Washington Post. (40 words)
But the weather is more than just an irritant, and a barrier to getting work done during planting and the harvest- it is having real-world impacts on the bottom line for family farmers across the state. (37 words)
Having disentangled itself from various humiliating forms of subordination to outside powers, it seems pretty clear that this dynamic of subordination has one remaining irritant left for Pakistanis: that of the House of Saud. (34 words)
Growing Iranian Influence in Kargil: Next Irritant for Tehran-New Delhi Relations? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Capsaicin takes effect upon skin contact (irritant, sensitizer), eye contact (irritant), ingestion, and inhalation (lung irritant, lung sensitizer).
It can cause a strong irritant to the skin, eyes and mucous membranes and cause blindness if splashed into the eyes.
The agreement also requires limiting Taser and chemical irritant use by officers, and introduces a new framework to categorize officers’ use of force.
As development has exploded, especially on larger tracts, burn piles have been a recurrent irritant to residents, not just in in Palm Coast.
As police moved in, students were pushed to the ground, pulled by their arms and sprayed with a chemical irritant, Laura Goldblatt, an assistant professor of English and global studies who has been helping student demonstrators, told The Washington Post.
Eight people were rushed to hospital in Limerick city as a university campus building was evacuated over fears of contamination by a potential irritant on Wednesday morning.
He was also unlawfully in possession of a noxious irritant spray.
One possible difference between the candidates may be over support for Taiwan, “the greatest irritant” in Washington-Beijing ties, Orlins said.
The Boston manager just got his new, near-record $21.75 million, three-year contract, and his former irritant Verdugo remains a puzzle.
Across the two decades that have followed, spam has remained the primary vehicle for delivering malware as well as being an ever-present irritant.
Growing Iranian Influence in Kargil: Next Irritant for Tehran-New Delhi Relations?
Having disentangled itself from various humiliating forms of subordination to outside powers, it seems pretty clear that this dynamic of subordination has one remaining irritant left for Pakistanis: that of the House of Saud.
John Bercow: ‘I may be pompous and an irritant.
She and her assistants immediately began the arduous process of removing the oil using a specialised non-irritant detergent and lots of TLC.
The officers suddenly surged toward the barricade and began firing an irritant into the crowd.
At 9:15 p.m., “an individual was spraying an irritant at Fair guests,” Minnesota State Fair Police Chief Paul Paulos said in a statement Tuesday.
But the weather is more than just an irritant, and a barrier to getting work done during planting and the harvest- it is having real-world impacts on the bottom line for family farmers across the state.
But this is just a tiny irritant in an otherwise superb novel.
By virtue of that, we’re an irritant.
He is also accused of possessing the irritant.
Common combinations with irritant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an irritant 13×
- irritant and 8×
- the irritant 5×
- skin irritant 5×
- irritant to 3×
- irritant in 3×
- contact irritant 2×
- strong irritant 2×
- chemical irritant 2×
- and irritant 2×