badgered
Example Sentences
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He asked blistering public questions of city and state leaders, badgered Washington to investigate the fire, and joined other displaced residents in filing a lawsuit for “inverse condemnation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
He didn't sing the song live until December 2014 after his crew badgered him to do it.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
Then I half coaxed, half badgered him out of his bed and into the shower.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
