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Example sentences for "nagged"

Lexicographically close words:
naething; nag; nagar; nage; nager; nagging; nags; nagur; nah; nahe
  1. But as the weeks passed, it nagged at him so constantly that he became obsessed with it.

  2. She had continually nagged at him, and heaped abuse on him, while he lived; yet now her distracted shrieks filled the house and disturbed the neighbourhood.

  3. And as I stared at the blank spot where it had been, the thing that had nagged me during dinner last night finally leaped into consciousness.

  4. Something nagged at the back of my mind all the time I was eating.

  5. After a time, curiosity nagged him into approaching her hiding-place.

  6. Wages must be kept down; hours kept up; the workers driven every minute, fined if they were late, nagged if they dawdled.

  7. Parents cannot fool their children long, and the Grout youngsters had learned at an early date that Pop always forked over when he was nagged into it.

  8. She nagged him for a while about his plodding ways, the things that satisfied him, the salary he endured.

  9. They glared in a nagged rage that would have turned into an ugly quarrel if a great sorrow had not suddenly overswept them.

  10. He nagged at Gustave to give him a chance.

  11. He nagged at his brother: "Gus, when do we start for Chicago?

  12. In spite of himself, this trifle nagged at him unpleasantly.

  13. Anaïtis nagged and sulked for a while when her Prince Consort slackened in the pursuit of strange delights, as he did very soon, with frank confession that his tastes were simple and that these outlandish refinements bored him.

  14. It was because I loved you, and wanted you to get on in the world and be a credit to my father's line of business, that I nagged you so.

  15. So they both nagged Marushka all day long.

  16. She had already had five husbands all of whom she had nagged to death.

  17. But of all these traces of memories, those concerning women nagged the android most.

  18. No wonder the sight of that stranger had nagged at Les.

  19. I like to write if I can choose my own time, and wait till the spirit moves me, but I despise to be nagged into doing it.

  20. It sounds to me as if he is just plain lazy and I nevah did have any use for a man that had to be nagged all the time to keep his ambition up to high-watah mark.

  21. But he can't stand being nagged at all the time, and he feels that he don't count for anything.

  22. It was always like that, she told herself passionately; they nagged at her and tormented her and wore her out with their care and anxiety, and then suffocated her with their affection.

  23. His wife subsequently nagged him to death for it.

  24. Bender nagged and pleaded with me without let-up.

  25. I found him spotlessly honest and devoted I quickly raised his salary to fifteen dollars a week He was the embodiment of method and precision and he often nagged me for my deficiency in these qualities.

  26. He has been nagged until his patience is lost," said Mrs. Bates.

  27. She had no means of knowing that for a week George had nagged his mother unceasingly because Kate was gone on his return, and would not be back until after time for him to go again.

  28. Back of all that the thought of that strange, disguised voice talking for Johnny Jewel nagged at her nerves as something sinister and mysterious.

  29. When he had time to think of it, that glimpse of the horsemen and the loose horses over beyond the red hill nagged him with a warning that all was not well on the Rolling R range.

  30. But when he returned home with empty hands, the old woman nagged at him so frightfully that he dared not go into the house, but passed the night in the courtyard beneath the staircase.

  31. She nagged and nagged and nagged, until I got nervous.

  32. There were other witnesses that I had never seen, sir, who swore how I nagged Mr. Ekdahl, and Mr. Ekdahl got his divorce from me.

  33. Because you should have hurried," nagged Rafe.

  34. She refused to remember how many of the women of the Jolly Seventeen nagged their husbands and were nagged by them.

  35. I ain't going to be nagged by no bureaus and take orders off labor-leaders.

  36. After another while she slapped shut the book and took to roaming up and down the large room as if she there found respite from the spirit of her which nagged and carped.

  37. Because then, just like now, you nagged me.

  38. Some months ago I invested in two tickets in a great lottery, but when I told my wife of the speculation I had indulged in she nagged and nagged at me to such a frightful extent that at last I sold the tickets.

  39. In response to the wink he pulled the dogged expression of the unjustly nagged employee over his features.

  40. Yet all the way through his shower, dressing, coming down the elevator from his apartment, he'd been nagged with the fear he might not be considered; that the grief of Linda and her rise above it would lead only to anticlimax.

  41. Charley, be careful what you say," nagged Jane acridly from her corner.

  42. She's nagged me to perfection ever since the day of our wedding when she made me sign the pledge before she let me kiss her!

  43. I haven't eaten a thing I cared about, nor drank a drop I wanted, nor used a bad word I was fond of, since I married, without being nagged at about it.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nagged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    haunted; mindful; obsessed; plagued; rankled