nag

Example Sentences

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I don’t want to nag, but neither do I want to be a doormat.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

They'll leave with brilliant memories of days and nights together, of wins on the road that bonded them, of a series won, but Saturday will nag away at them forever.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

Still, in the weeks and months following the decoder experiments, the unsettling implications of the device began to nag at him.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024

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

I think back to all the times I’ve heard Grandma nag at him about his blood pressure and not eating too much salt.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh