1. 'Leave me alone,' she said testily.

2. He reacted testily to reports that he'd opposed military involvement.

3. A different Microsoft executive responded testily when approached at an industry event in San Francisco with the query that is the headline of this article.

4. Aziraphale looked wretched. "If you must know, " he said, a trifle testily, "I gave it away."

5. As the commuter plane in the cartoon plunges downward, the fat passenger testily refuses to acknowledge her guilt in misleading the airline about her weight.

6. Having gotten his grim confession off his chest, he asked, rather testily , what my trading system had done in beans over the period.