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

He did not like the Reformatory a bit, they were nagging him all the time.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard