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How to use nagging in a sentence

23 example sentences · adjective, noun

Nagging means persistently annoying or painful. Example: “Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall.”

Examples of nagging by meaning

adjectivePersistently annoying or painful.

  • Eventually he had learned to live with it, but he always had a nagging suspicion that he had not been good enough for his mother.2003, Christopher Paolini, “Dragon Tales”, in Eragon, page 20

adjectiveCausing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.

  • Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.2012 January, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2013...

More sentences with nagging

  • Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall.From the entry drive someone up the wall
  • OK! I get it! Stop nagging me!From the entry ok
  • Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.From the entry stream
  • But she was unable to quash the nagging suspicion that Donald Trump has something to hide.2025 September 9, David Smith, “The president doth protest too much: Trump’s denial on Epstein is backfiring”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Catherine wheel
  • He played the straitlaced partner of the rowdy hero, always nagging him about paperwork and protocol.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 164. From the entry straitlaced
  • Once the naggee takes responsibility for the nagging, it can stop.2020, John Rowan, Healing the Male Psyche: Therapy as Initiation, page 185. From the entry naggee
  • Diddy Combs, who hasn't stopped nagging MTV for his own show ever since he saw Ozzy's Nielsens.2004, Celia Rivenbark, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier. From the entry poutsome
  • Long ago he had begun to visualize this nagging misery as the insect the word also named.1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry flair
  • Its nagging, prehensile tentacles project into every level of human existence.1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC…. From the entry evil
  • I’m already over both announcer crews (again), muting them both due to the yelling-at-cloud nagging of David Pollack.2025 July 8, Jason Kirk, “Initial reacts to College Football 26, plus CFB’s hardest rivalry to rank”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry yell at cloud
  • The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22. From the entry cursor
  • I encountered that nagging worry everywhere on Hatteras.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, pages 496-498. From the entry Hatteras
  • The Oriental ruler, Emir Ackbar, has had his power weakened by his nagging Queen and her shrewish adviseress, Tifeyah.1957 April 26, G. B. A., “Hoof ’n’ Horn Musical Comedy Repeats Tonight—‘Emir’ Pleases Audience At Duke”, in The Durham Sun, volume LXIX…. From the entry adviseress
  • My sponsor, when I present him with a nagging problem (usually trivial, although blown out of proportion in my warped mind), invariably replies, "Lou, that's a Cadillac problem.2011, Louis Teresi, Hijacking the Brain, page 197. From the entry Cadillac problem
  • Close by there was a sweat hole in which the men were accustomed to taking Turkish baths before ceremonies and also to avoid the nagging of their womenfolk.2009, Tom Hopwood, A Uganda Diary A Doctor on Safari, page 213. From the entry sweat hole
  • What could have been a moral victory or arguably a feminist struggle ante litteram remains a farcical squabble between a nagging wife and a ridiculous old man.2007, Patricia Vilches, Gerald E. Seaman, Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli, page 191. From the entry ante litteram
  • But the nagging curiosity about what she might have, could have, perhaps should not have said inspired this playful hourlong exploration of the mind-body connection, in which Ms.2007 October 1, Charles Isherwood, “While Superego Sleeps, a Mind at Play”, in New York Times. From the entry presurgery
  • I was brought up with, precisely, hauntingly, that shrill, nagging, over-insistent way of speaking, that bossy-pants way of walking, that remorseless insistence on always being right.1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry bossy pants
  • In the play, lawyer Ramoni Alao, because of his nagging wife, decides to go to the market to get special clothes for “Ileya” without a kobo in his pocket.1989, Olu Obafemi, “Zulu Sofola’s Theatre”, in Henrietta C. Otokunefor, Obiageli C. Nwodo, editors, Nigerian Female Writers: A Critical…. From the entry kobo
  • Kingstonians blessed or cursed with a nagging wife just complained to the Bailiffs who had her placed in the ducking stool and forcibly immersed in the river.1938, G. Herbert Shaw, A Survey of the Royal Borough and Its Amenities, page 15. From the entry Kingstonian
  • Maybe because I was going from trophy girlfriend to trophy girlfriend, ignoring the nagging feeling that I wasn’t getting what I really wanted and having no idea what that meant.2017, Daryl Banner, chapter 4, in Football Sundae, Frozenfyre Publishing, page 46. From the entry trophy girlfriend

Meaning of nagging

  1. adjective Persistently annoying or painful.
  2. noun The action of the verb nag.
  3. adjective Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.

Full definition of nagging

Questions about nagging in a sentence

How do you use nagging in a sentence?
Nagging is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall.”
What is a short sentence with nagging?
“OK! I get it! Stop nagging me!”
What does nagging mean?
Nagging means persistently annoying or painful.

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