| In 2000, close to two-thirds of all illiterates were female, and the gap is closing at an exasperatingly slow rate. |
| My questions are also based on his exasperatingly convoluted and unclear manner of speaking. |
| The figure kept, exasperatingly, just out of their reach, always a pace ahead of them. |
| He wouldn't talk, turning away from them and staying exasperatingly silent. |
| It is presumably futile to expect that question to be explored in a series which exasperatingly left lots of issues unaddressed. |
| The girl with dark brown hair looked at the exasperatingly chirpy look on Diana's face and once again, sighed inwardly. |
