Example sentences for: nagging

How can you use “nagging” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But my diary shows endless fretting and nagging on my part as the sixth or the seventh or the 12 th of the month arrived and the check did not.

  • When last season began, it looked like The Sopranos was a comedy, too--a spoof about a mobster with spoiled, nagging children and mother problems who goes to see a shrink.

  • For reasons only Hoffman understands, he has saddled Nick Bottom (Kevin Kline), one of Shakespeare's most delightfully shameless extroverts, with a nagging wife and added bits in which the braggart is poignantly humiliated by children.

  • Nearby on the water’s edge is a dunking stool, used in times past for nagging wives or busybodies.

  • Not everyone can always be sure of everything, but it has always seemed to me that one of the functions of education is to implant doubt in a student's mind: in other words, it is not so important that he remember, a dozen years after leaving school, what a dangling modifier, split infinitive, agreement between the number of a subject and its verb, etc., might mean, but the process of education should have created a (minor) circuit in the brain of the pupil so that when a certain situation is encountered later on, he acknowledge a nagging suspicion that there might be something wrong and that it would be best were he to look it up in an authoritative source to see what is written there by people who know such things.


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