At home, grading tests that 32 of 35 students would fail, her frustration sometimes overwhelmed her.

When I am confronted with a long flight of stairs with treads that overhang the risers so that the little wheels catch on every step, frustration overwhelms me.

One night, frustration overwhelmed him.

Fear, anger, and frustration overwhelmed me.

Hannah's hidden frustration at the news of Ikey's betrayal suddenly overwhelmed her sense of caution.

Saul's frustration overwhelmed him.

Her hands gripped at the clothes as frustration overwhelmed her.

Antoinette wanted to avoid thinking of them as so many cattle, but as soon as she hit the main cloying mass of bodies and found her own progress blocked or impeded, frustration overwhelmed her.

Pinning Samuel and the others to the page is Reza's chief talent: she has an easy understanding of just how amusing men can be when free-floating anxiety and frustration overwhelm them.

"I shed a couple of tears," said Mr. Thomson, a burly man with a beard and a soft-spoken voice who admits that the frustration sometimes overwhelms him and his family.