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

Afterwards, when they had pestered him about the roan's record, he admitted to himself that he had, maybe, overshot the mark and told it a bit too scarey, and too convincingly.

From The Happy Family by Bower, B. M.