were nagging
- past progressive of nag.
Example Sentences
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When I was developing the script, people were nagging me about it being a modern fairy tale, and why I did not set the film “today.”
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
For all the production by the offense, there were nagging failures on short-yardage plays and in hurry-up situations.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2021
Versi’s approach – polite, factual complaints about one article at a time – can feel tame, or perhaps altogether misbegotten, as if he were nagging a battleship.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2018
But Maneafaiga believes the consequences were nagging injuries.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2012
The American knew it was hunger, heat and nerves that were nagging these two miserable men to quarrel.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.
