Example Sentences

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She said concerns around the situation have "niggled" her since.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Although his knee completely gave up on him when the stakes were highest, it has allowed Aspinall to have surgery, solving a problem which has niggled away at him for his entire UFC career.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2023

The exclusion crushed Kral, and something else niggled him.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2020

He will be targeted which can lead, as it did in Fortaleza in the quarter-final last year, to him being injured, or it can lead, as it did here, to him being niggled into eruption.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2015

The thought niggled at Ophie as she set down her bucket and began to wipe at the windows, the water sloshing a bit as she worked.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland