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Example sentences for "nagging"

Lexicographically close words:
nag; nagar; nage; nager; nagged; nags; nagur; nah; nahe; nahm
  1. You probably know what a lot of nagging little worries a ranchman has, and sometimes it seems to me they all have to come at once.

  2. At last he was face to face with something definite and concrete, and in a moment all the little doubts and nagging nervous qualms which had assailed him from time to time during his long vigil were swept away.

  3. My stomach heaved at the bad food, the eternal smell of people, and the constant sound of nagging and complaints.

  4. We felt sick, beyond the nagging worry about the food.

  5. I should have thought you wandering women get plenty in our house all of you, and yet you must always be quarrelling and nagging at each other.

  6. They were clever enough in nagging their clerks and their young women and in proving them to blame.

  7. In nervous people the nagging discomfort of a yielding arch will sometimes (just as eye strain does) produce reflex headaches, constipation, lack of appetite, and apparently predispose to the frequent recurrence of migrainous headaches.

  8. At the beginning of a period of pain we stand it well, as a rule, but its continual nagging debilitates us and heightens our susceptibility until we cannot nerve ourselves to further endurance.

  9. Slight discomforts are exaggerated into nagging aches and pains which produce extreme depression of spirits.

  10. Even those farmers who had noticed the trends of twenty years felt a nagging sense of loss and resentment at the passing of their traditional way of life.

  11. Amid regulations and forms the farmer felt a nagging loss of independence.

  12. One cures this disease, in case one does help it at all, by making the nagging person conscious of what it is that he is doing.

  13. Because I can remember several cases where I could not possibly leave out nagging when I came to make my social diagnosis.

  14. LIZA [drinking in his emotion like nectar, and nagging him to provoke a further supply] Stop, please.

  15. Mr. Meeker of Missouri, Democrat, protested against Congress "yielding to the nagging of a certain group.

  16. They were warned that their nagging tactics would cause trouble in the navy.

  17. True, the Opposition indulged in petty nagging and in ingeniously unpatriotic tactics; but they only served to throw up in bold relief the consistent and courageous conduct of the Prime Minister.

  18. But, being thwarted by the stupidity of British traders and the nagging tactics adopted at Dublin, he wrote to Rutland that his plan was not discredited by failure and they must "await times and seasons for carrying it into effect.

  19. Martin knew this and suffered more keenly from it than from the open and nagging contempt of Bernard Higginbotham.

  20. It was the hard work, the many children, and the nagging of her husband, he decided, that had changed her.

  21. He extracted great happiness from squelching her, and she squelched easily these days, though it had been different in the first years of their married life, before the brood of children and his incessant nagging had sapped her energy.

  22. He took a deep breath, clearing his mind of the nagging doubt.

  23. He spent his life nagging the merchants into throwing him crumbs of petty patronage.

  24. With his abusive "Briefs" and his inflammatory editorials he became, in a small way, a nuisance to the town; with his nagging for advertisements he became a nuisance to the merchants.

  25. But although an imaginative child is much easier to teach later on, and although he does not trouble you with the incessant nagging "What shall I do now?

  26. There is something calm and impressive about genuine indignation, while scolding is apt to become nagging and to arouse contempt in the child.

  27. We've all let off quite enough steam, and we don't want to go on nagging all day.

  28. Under the blouse and skirt, he was discovering, she wore very little, and that was just as well; nagging thoughts about the doubtful privacy of his office were beginning to assail him.

  29. But the notion came back, nagging at his mind, and at last it took a new form.

  30. There always remained the nagging fear that when he searched for the next it would not be there and he would cling to his perch lacking the needful strength in aching arms and legs to reclimb the inside ladder.

  31. And what was worse, this time there clung that nagging little doubt.

  32. But a small and nagging doubt inside the younger man restrained his enthusiasm over such a voyage.

  33. A small nagging doubt of Thorvald's obsession began to grow in his mind.

  34. He sprawled on the bed, raising his right knee to soften the nagging of the splinter-wound.

  35. So it was spoken, the doubt that had been nagging his days.

  36. Tzu-yu said, Nagging at kings brings disgrace, nagging at friends estrangement.

  37. Sarah was in one of her nagging moods, he knew, and she disturbed him but little.

  38. Abel without moving, and his tone implied that the ceaseless nagging had got at last on his nerves.

  39. Thenceforward he lived in peace at a house called "The Hut," visiting his two nagging ladies every day, however.

  40. Sneers from artistic enemies outside; whimpering and nagging inside because he would not conform to court rules, and seek popularity as a good livery-wearing conductor should--no wonder he gave a sigh of relief at quitting Dresden.

  41. Those moving distant black specks typified uneasiness for the squire--not fear exactly, or panic or anything akin to it, but a nibbling, nagging kind of uneasiness.

  42. Men hate nagging, and, indeed, husband-nagging is almost as cruel as wife-beating.

  43. When fault has to be found, let it be done sharply and once for all, but nagging is dispiriting and intolerable.

  44. She was really worried half to death over Starr, and the rabies, and Pat, and the nagging consciousness that she had not accomplished as much copying of manuscript as Holman Sommers probably expected.

  45. The plump sister called him Holly, and seemed to be inordinately proud of his learning and inordinately fond of nagging at him over little things.

  46. Above the roar of the car-wheels we heard his nagging inquiries.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nagging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animadversion; aspersion; blandishment; captious; carping; catty; cavil; critical; criticism; cynical; demanding; exception; flak; fretful; gripe; haunting; hit; hypercritical; importunate; importunity; imputation; indelible; insistent; knock; nagging; niggling; nit; obloquy; obsessive; peevish; persistent; pestering; petulant; plaguing; pressing; pressure; querulous; quibble; quibbling; rap; recurrent; reflection; resentful; shrewish; slam; sneaking; stricture; swipe; teasing; unforgettable; urgency; urgent; wheedling