Example Sentences

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The Oscar-winner stop-motion take on ‘Pinocchio’ for Netflix is a sometimes odd, awkward thing, and at times a naggingly modern thing, but mostly a good thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Even so, I haven’t felt this naggingly uneasy since I read Tom Cruise’s attorney claim his movie shoots were akin to being deployed to Afghanistan.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2017

The end came a year to the day after Washington bowed out of the playoffs in naggingly similar circumstances, in six games to another top seed, the Indiana Pacers.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2015

How did this naggingly simple rock song conquer sport?

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2012

Often the teachers were impatient and cross but never naggingly cruel.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith