harping
Example Sentences
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Wiatt, apparently having cold feet, starts harping on culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"We need reinforcements, but I don't want to keep harping on about it. I don't need to beg for players that we need."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025
Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024
Kavanaugh then pivoted, harping on “detransitioners”—people who transitioned, and then stopped identifying as transgender.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
It has a mournful harping note sometimes, and the very persistence of it, that eternal roll and thunder and hiss, plays a jagged tune upon the nerves.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
