badgered

Example Sentences

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He asked blistering public questions of city and state leaders, badgered Washington to investigate the fire, and joined other displaced residents in filing a lawsuit for “inverse condemnation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

“We talk about it all the time, but it’s really so cruel and so bad for someone’s mental health, just to keep getting badgered all the time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Then I half coaxed, half badgered him out of his bed and into the shower.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson