pester
verb (used with object)
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble.
had pestered
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past perfectof pester.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She had pestered state employees about her paperwork for a Medicaid waiver, filed two years ago, that would help her afford home-based care.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
He added that his readers had pestered him about the lack of new episodes of network standbys like “NCIS” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2021
For years, Granderson had pestered the quiet Duda by posting surreptitiously recorded photos and videos of Duda on an a popular Instagram account he created, @wefollowlucasduda, and he wanted to keep the practice alive.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2017
The Nationals trailed baseball’s best team by only one run, 3-2, in the sixth inning and had pestered its incomparable starter, Roy Halladay, for seven hits already.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2011
Babe was older than I, and had pestered me from the time I was ten.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by James J. (James John) Davis
