bulldogged

Example Sentences

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The world pleaded, cajoled and bullyragged Nintendo into putting Mario on smartphones.

From Time • Dec. 15, 2016

For his effrontery, Lindsay was exiled to the dismal Chicago Blackhawks in 1957, and thereafter bullyragged into early retirement.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 19, 2015

By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up.

From Time Magazine Archive

The automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question.

From Time Magazine Archive

But before that he bullyragged me because I had found out that there were other keys knocking about the place that fitted the padlocks on the bullion-room door.

From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Morrison, Arthur