Example Sentences

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The packs first targeted to be caught are those which are pestering schools and built up areas.

From Children's BBC • Feb. 11, 2014

So he can't understand why the authorities are pestering him now, and why he has to pay so many bribes to keep his business afloat.

From Reuters • Feb. 13, 2012

The newspapers are pestering me to declare a program.

From A Son of the Immortals by Christy, Howard Chandler

He speaks of you as a sad young dog, but for all that is secretly proud of your skill at the bow and of the way you are pestering the Sheriff, whom he likes not.

From Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker)

The sons of all the chief men among you are pestering my mother to marry them against her will.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel