Example Sentences

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Davide Ancelotti had been pestering his father, Carlo, to make one particular substitution.

From BBC • May 28, 2024

She went with one of her two teenage daughters, who had been pestering her for days to let her attend a protest.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2020

According to Liang, however, Ren had been pestering him for weeks because she thought he had a new girlfriend.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2018

But my agent had been pestering me for 30, 40 years, and all I had done was three collections.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2016

The creditors now hired an attorney named George B. Chamberlin, counsel for Chicago’s Lafayette Collection Agency, who had been pestering Holmes ever since he failed to pay the furnace company for improving his kiln.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson