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How to use pesky in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Pesky means annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child). Example: “Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!”

Examples of pesky by meaning

adjectiveAnnoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).

  • Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!
  • That pesky dog is barking again.

More sentences with pesky

  • My patients laud qigong as a stressbuster and cure for pesky chronic symptoms that baffle doctors.2004, Judith Orloff, Positive Energy, page 112. From the entry qigong
  • Margaret Cerullo gave a rousing speech, despite the pesky interruptions of a cranky sound system.1987 December 6, Kris Kleindienst, “Sex On The Table”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 21, page 6. From the entry cranky
  • The theater, with its four pesky walls, is not.2012 May 2, “Space Panorama”, in Philadelphia City Paper. From the entry astrophilic
  • Now, my little pesky pets, you're going to travel first-class in your own private compartment all the way to Timbuktu.1970, The Aristocats (motion picture). From the entry Timbuktu
  • "The pesky critters are wondrous fond of water."1901, William Tucker Washburn, The Deuce of Hearts, page 445. From the entry unhole
  • They won’t rival actual stripers for overall size, but wiper find a happy medium between the revered striper and the much smaller, pesky white bass.2021 April 23, Stephen Klobucar, “The history and mystery of hybrid fishes”, in Meat Eater. From the entry wiper
  • Or do you really think that the spammers would stop spamming if only those pesky anti-spammers would just take up some other hobby?2005 January 12, Graham Freeman, “Re: "Spammers tax DNS infrastructures"”, in ba.internet (Usenet). From the entry spamvertisement
  • Should we worry about a world of stodgy multicentenarians who will resist the innovations of ninety-something upstarts and perhaps ban the begetting of pesky children altogether?2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN. From the entry multicentenarian

Meaning of pesky

  1. adjective Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).

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Questions about pesky in a sentence

How do you use pesky in a sentence?
Pesky is used as an adjective. For example: “Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!”
What is a short sentence with pesky?
“That pesky dog is barking again.”
What does pesky mean?
Pesky means annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pesky (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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