nagged

Example Sentences

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The burden had lifted, never again would we be able to ask the questions that had nagged him for more than a decade.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

And when I returned in the fall of 2023 to watch Pretzel again, the feeling nagged at me that maybe I could.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2025

These arguably hairsplitting thoughts nagged at me thanks to my job as a congressional correspondent focused on federal spending.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

“We really just took an extra week because it kind of nagged with him so we took an extra week to get him back,’’ Carroll said of Haynes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

She wouldn’t talk about her sleepwalking or the temper tantrums that exploded when her mother nagged her or her father made her do her chores over again.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson