pester

Brush clearance is required nationwide, but local fire departments rarely pester property owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

There’s a store chain called Five Below that is designed to maximize pester power.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

And I never needed to pester him for stories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

But as I tried to pester, cajole, and play to what I thought were his sympathies to convince him to speak with me, he quickly stopped being mad.

From Slate ● May 31, 2024

“Watch a video. Play with your toys. Go and pester Miss Spink or Miss Forcible, or the crazy old man upstairs.”

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

He described Mr Amro as an "anarchist who frequently pesters IDF soldiers in Hebron".

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2023

Now, she said, her family pesters her for festival tickets, and she is preparing to direct a new film to be shot in Saudi Arabia.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

When Emily pesters her with insecure questions about her own appearance, Mrs. Webb snaps at her daughter, “You’re pretty enough for all normal purposes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2017

Mundey, who often pesters Neiko about taking good shots and getting back on defense, yelled from the sideline.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017

Isabella d’Este pesters a friar in Florence who knows Leonardo.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Snead said he pestered Berry “probably jokingly at first,” before talks became more serious before and after the NFL draft in late April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

He pestered his parents and friends about the risks of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Surely only Williams pestered the woman about it afterwards.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

There is of course the danger that instead of being pestered for a smartphone, parents will find themselves being pestered for a piece of Barbie merchandise - which may be just as unwelcome.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024

Frightful doesn’t have such a word in her vocabulary, but then her ancestors were never pestered by flies as were Slats’s.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Become a real nuisance and tech boosters will eventually give up, handing the future back to the pestering, teeming masses.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

The idea for Campus Guardian Angel came from Justin Marston, a British entrepreneur and Mithril co-founder, who saw videos of small Ukrainian drones pestering Russian soldiers with guns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

She added: "Your constant pestering, badgering and, eventually, attendance at their home address on a dark evening in December was unwarranted."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

As she waits for her fiancé, who is delayed by inclement weather, to arrive, her guests buzz around her like candy-colored flies, pestering her.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

For the next three days Cato was at the Haarlem police station from early morning until curfew, pestering Dutch and Germans alike to let her see her husband.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom