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Example sentences for "pestered"

Lexicographically close words:
pessimus; pest; peste; pestem; pester; pestering; pesthouse; pesticide; pesticides; pestiferous
  1. If my name is on the list, I'll be pestered until I give 'em something.

  2. Haven't I enough trouble without being pestered by officers who'll ask me a hundred questions.

  3. That for his own part he was not surprised to find it so, as the works of Kant were to him utterly incomprehensible--that he had often been pestered by the Kanteans; but was rarely in the practice of arguing with them.

  4. I ain't been pestered a hull lot by th' inhabitants on my way up.

  5. Anyhow, we pestered him nigh to death las' time, an' he 's shore come back at us.

  6. Clearly Madame Levin regarded forty pounds as a very large sum, and she pestered "Lady Goold" every time they met.

  7. Daily he pestered his mother to give her consent, but she held out against him, and at last Weiss had to resort to desperate measures.

  8. You have been pestered by suitors, and now you hope that you will have at least a respite.

  9. The paltry earnings you are able to wring out of clients by the sweat of your brow will now be all our income; you will be pestered for pin-money, and pestered with your poor wife's relations.

  10. So they dropped me like a hot potato; never pestered me again.

  11. A lot of brokers were there, like vultures; and one after another stepped forward and pestered them to employ him in the morning.

  12. He informed the company, in a broad Yorkshire dialect, that he did a bit in furniture, and at first starting these brokers buzzed about him like flies, and pestered him.

  13. His grandmother was a chronic worrier, who pestered Phoenix about using the home phone line during thunderstorms for fear he would be electrocuted.

  14. Par pestered Force some more for the rest of the numbers, but the Australian had dug his heels in.

  15. In the mean time she was pestered with intimations, in a thousand forms, of the fate that so nearly awaited her.

  16. Disengaged from the insects that at first pestered him, he paced up and down the room with a magisterial stride, and flashed an angry glance on every side.

  17. The hawker, besides, had not pestered him.

  18. Should I have ridden to Ohlau and pestered your father till he yielded?

  19. Chateaudoux went quickly by, fearing to be pestered for alms.

  20. The gals has pestered me all my life long with too much lovin', and my great reason for bein' willin' to have Callista Gentry is that she seems like you say, sorter offish.

  21. Ah how the poor world is pestered with such water-flies, such diminutives of nature!

  22. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure.

  23. We never thought but what he had got through, for all we was pestered about it, or else me and Jim would 'a' turned out last night.

  24. I never pestered myself much about making friends and connections; but I must not be too proud, either.

  25. He was hinc inde choked with sophistical arguments, for he framed them very well in modo et figura, but he could not resolve them, remaining pestered and entangled by this means, like a mouse caught in a trap or kite snared in a gin.

  26. Was he now to be pestered and tripped up upon this or that item?

  27. I must not omit to add, that we were pestered all day by vast numbers of mosquetoes, which are not much unlike the gnats in England, but much more venomous in their stings.

  28. Her hands too are as few as is consistent with the safety of the ship, that she may be less pestered with the stowage of provisions.

  29. The poor man was pestered continually to reveal the secret.

  30. I was examined on much the same lines as on the first occasion, except that they pestered me a good deal more about the hanging, which I continued to deny.

  31. It was painful enough to have to try such a case and keep the scales of justice evenly balanced without the Court being pestered with meaningless laughter and applause.

  32. Wood belonged to the vilest class of person which Society was pestered with, and the jury ought not to believe his story unless satisfactorily corroborated.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pestered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    badgered; baited; bedeviled; beset; dogged; harassed; harried; hounded; needled; persecuted; pestered; plagued; ragged; tormented; worried