nag at
Example Sentences
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For all that he did this season, the Mariners’ failure to reach to the postseason and his own inconsistencies will nag at him all offseason and motivate him through workouts.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023
“Is nostalgia itself a failure to deal with the present day? Are you in retreat? That was something that started to nag at me.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Walks from his relievers seem to especially nag at him.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2021
But the signs nag at me because the message could so easily read #WholeNewSeason.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2020
He doesn’t feel this always, just enough to nag at him, settling over his thoughts like a web.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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