pesky

Example Sentences

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I pause on the porch, allowing the heat to soak into my skin, but a handful of pesky mosquitos start buzzing around me.

From Literature

“What clever younglings. You made it just in time to find that pesky door,” she said.

From Literature

Those memorable segments demonstrated how the desk-and-sofa format could be a tool in the politician’s arsenal for shaping public opinion away from the pesky probing of journalists.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s difficult enough without fending off the opinions of pesky, if well-meaning, relatives.

From MarketWatch

But real estate insiders say the property is badly in need of remodeling, with aging office spaces, tiny windows, fickle elevators and a pesky rodent population among its ills.

From Barron's