Example Sentences

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Bobo pesters the grown-ups with tons of pushy questions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

He described Mr Amro as an "anarchist who frequently pesters IDF soldiers in Hebron".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2023

Sometimes she slips up and pesters me by saying, “Steve, take out the garbage please.”

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2019

“Was I breast-fed?” he pesters his bewildered 80-year-old father.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019

The head of the monastery, the prior, pesters Leonardo to hurry up already.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day